闻其声想必是位女子
“Judging by the voice, you must be a lady.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
竟遇见了他
“I ran into him there.”
闻其声想必是位女子
“Judging by the voice, you must be a lady.”
天降大雪
“The snow is heavy”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Literary Chinese fiction frequently uses deductive auditory phrases like 'hearing the sound before seeing the person' to build mystery around character arrivals.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
hearing the voice / judging from the sound
A classical idiom structure often paired with inferring character or presence before seeing the person.
most likely is / presumably
Used to introduce a strong, reasonable inference based on clues.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“They heard men and women moaning in there.”
“(his claims of staying away from women)”
“Yeah. That's pretty loud.”
“If a woman just raises her voice a little bit, he gets annoyed.”
“You called her a mere performer again and again.”
“Hansheng has been to our house before, right?”