他不是被咬死的 是被蝙蝠毒死的
“He wasn't bitten to death. He was poisoned to death by the bats.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Witnesses said Hu Da was bitten to death by bats.”
他 不是 被咬死的 是 被蝙蝠毒死的
“He wasn't bitten to death. He was poisoned to death by the bats.”
“Your Ladyship, we found this nearby.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Officials in traditional Chinese detective narratives place high value on autopsies and objective evidence to calm public panic caused by superstitious rumors.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
not... but rather...
A standard corrective sentence pattern where the second conjunction '而是' is often abbreviated to just '是' in fast spoken dialogue.
poisoned to death by...
Combines the passive marker '被' with the resultative verb compound '毒死' to state the cause of death.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“You mean they were also killed by poisonous insects?”
“You've been poisoned. The bat venom.”
“we'll either be poisoned or starved to death on this floor.”
“were first pierced and killed by the insects,”
“Witnesses said Hu Da was bitten to death by bats.”
“That's definitely not a mosquito bite.”