今天吃耗子药死了
“It ate rat poison and died today.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
狗怎么了
“what happened to the dog?”
今天 吃耗子药死了
“It ate rat poison and died today.”
刚埋下就被雨水冲出来了
“I just buried it, but the rain washed it out.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
The term '耗子' (hàozi) is a regional colloquial word predominantly used in Northern China to refer to rats or mice, commonly heard in rural and industrial settings.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
rat poison
Northern colloquial term for rat poison; '耗子' is dialect/colloquial for mouse or rat instead of '老鼠'.
ate... and died
A resultative complement construction indicating death caused by ingestion.
Indicates the completion of the action and the resulting state of death.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Even if you give her some rat poison, she dares to drink it too.”
“What's wrong? There's a rat. I heard it.”
“until they heard the drug killed him.”
“Is this poison curable? My medicine will keep her alive,”
“Even if I overdose on this stuff and die,”
“transfer all of Rat's gambling debts”