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In line with the conviction that I will do whatever it takes to serve my country even at the cost of my own life, regardless of fortune of misfortune to myself.

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What is it trying to say? What precedes and follows?

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@contrex,

contrex wrote:

What is it trying to say? What precedes and follows?

Wen Jiabao's predeparture speech expressed his determination to serve his country and its people, toiling unto death.

He's movie king in the heart of Chinese people.

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@oristarA,

In line with the conviction that I will do whatever it takes to serve my country even at the cost of my own life, regardless of fortune of misfortune to myself.

I hold with the conviction that I must do whatever it takes to serve my country, even at the cost of my own life, regardless of whatever the future holds for me.

Our Nathan Hale said it thusly, just before he was executed as a spy, "I regret that I have but one life to give for my country."

Joe(Let us now praise the truly brave)Nation

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Ori - your "sentence" is a clause - an opening or closing one.

You need a subject/verb for this clause, like Joe shows in his example.

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@Joe Nation,

Joe Nation wrote:

In line with the conviction that I will do whatever it takes to serve my country even at the cost of my own life, regardless of fortune of misfortune to myself.

I hold with the conviction that I must do whatever it takes to serve my country, even at the cost of my own life, regardless of whatever the future holds for me.

Our Nathan Hale said it thusly, just before he was executed as a spy, "I regret that I have but one life to give for my country."

Joe(Let us now praise the truly brave)Nation

Thank you Joe.

It is a translation of two lines from an ancient Chinese poem. So would you like to make it two poetic lines?

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@PUNKEY,

PUNKEY wrote:

Ori - your "sentence" is a clause - an opening or closing one.

You need a subject/verb for this clause, like Joe shows in his example.

An episode picked up from a poem... Razz

Of course the speaker only quoted the two lines from there.

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Here are two other versions for this:

1) But since my heart did love such purity,
I'd not regret a thousand deaths to die.

2) An ideal that I will hold unto death.

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I'd say "fortune OR misfortune"

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