谁家养鸽子了
“who is raising pigeons.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
正在暗中查访
“are secretly investigating”
谁家养鸽子了
“who is raising pigeons.”
是我家哪来的鸽子
“Where would my family get pigeons?”
“Did someone here raise pigeons, or are these being used to send secret messages?”
In historical and period detective contexts, raising pigeons often signifies clandestine message transmission rather than mere pet keeping.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
whose household / whose family
Commonly used in spoken Chinese to ask which household an item, person, or activity belongs to.
to raise pigeons
A standard verb-object phrase referring to keeping or breeding pigeons.
Marks a new situation or realization that someone has started keeping pigeons.