古德明英语军事小故事：滇缅公路(中英对照)
古德明《征服英语》之英语军事故事，古德明，香港英语教育作家，他开了一个《征服英语专栏》，在专栏中专门用英语写了世界近代史上的军事小故事，用英语讲述历史中那些惊心动魄的战争。滇缅公路
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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