今天后半夜八成要下雨
“It will probably rain later tonight.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
今天晚上没有月亮
“that there's no moon tonight.”
今天 后半夜 八成 要下雨
“It will probably rain later tonight.”
“Rain on Mid-Autumn Day means a harsh winter.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Chinese people often infer weather patterns from cloud cover and lunar phases. Referencing the proverb 'zhong qiu yu lin lin, san jiu dong si gou' (rain during Mid-Autumn Festival means severe freezing in midwinter), this reflects folk agricultural proverbs and life experience used to predict winter coldness based on Mid-Autumn weather.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
most likely; probably (literally 'eighty percent chance')
Commonly used in spoken Chinese as an adverb modifying a verb or predicate to express a high degree of certainty about an occurrence.
the latter half of the night; small hours (roughly from midnight until dawn)
A high-frequency colloquial term specifying a time period, contrasted with 'qian ban ye' (the first half of the night).
