It is inevitable that these people should tend towards capitulationism, for they fear both the destruction of their property in the war and the rise of the masses.

一方面害怕战争对于他们的财产的破坏，另一方面害怕民众的起来，他们的投降倾向是必然的。

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This should centre on promoting and spreading the knowledge and skills needed for the war and a sense of national pride among the masses of the people.

应以提高和普及人民大众的抗日的知识技能和民族自尊心为中心。

youdao

It was as if, to take the terrible dialectic one step further, the dream of total peace that had produced the fact of total war threw the bleeding and bewildered masses back on the only fixed point left: an absolutist religiosity, made more fanatic by persecution.

NEWYORKER: Slaughterhouse