警察随便去船厂里一打听
“The police just need to ask around the shipyard,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Even if you had a conflict with Ma Kai, would you kill him?”
警察 随便 去船厂里 一打听
“The police just need to ask around the shipyard,”
都知道马凯平时是怎么欺负我的 你说警察会信谁
“and they'll know how Ma Kai usually bullied me. Who do you think the police will believe?”
“It's obvious the cops will suspect me first because everyone knows we hate each other.”
In tightly-knit Chinese working-class environments like shipyards, workplace gossip and interpersonal reputation heavily influence police inquiries and public perception.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
casually; without much effort
Used before a verb to emphasize that an action requires minimal effort or is done at random.
to ask around; to inquire
Commonly used when trying to gather news, gossip, or informal information from people.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Go on board to investigate for me,”
“I heard there are bandits on the ship. It's dangerous, so they've locked the ship down.”
“a car often entered the shipyard as a visitor.”
“Back then, you were responsible for shipyard security.”
“I'll just hand it to the ship police before getting off.”
“If I hadn't sent cigarettes to the workshop foreman back then, could you have gotten into the shipyard?”