On the other hand, a few old mainlanders who boasted that they had "fought the whole eight years of the war against Japan from start to finish" spoke with a heroic air, and their answers to our questions seemed less like an interview than as if they were giving us "youngsters" a robust history lesson.
相反的，自誇「八年抗戰，我從頭打到尾」的幾位外省籍老先生，則是豪氣干雲，問答之間不像訪談，反倒像給後生晚輩們上一堂結結實實的歷史課。