古德明英語軍事小故事：滇緬公路(中英對照)
古德明《征服英語》之英語軍事故事，古德明，香港英語教育作家，他開了一個《征服英語專欄》，在專欄中專門用英語寫了世界近代史上的軍事小故事，用英語講述歷史中那些驚心動魄的戰(zhàn)爭。滇緬公路
soon after the outbreak of the second sino-japanese war in 1937, china's coast and port cities were occupied by the japanese. for war materials to be sent by other countries to china, the only route was a 717-mile trail between kunming and lashio in the british colony of burma.
in response to chiang kai-shek's call to turn the trail into a highway, 200,000 chinese started working and the burma road was completed in 1938. what they lacked in equipment, the chinese made up for in determination. one american engineer remarked,"my god, they scratched the thing out of the mountains with their finger nails!"
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