你身上到底发生了什么？
“what happened to you?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
阿芜
“Wu,”
你身上 到底发生了什么 ？
“what happened to you?”
你究竟为什么要对牧泷使用言灵术？
“Why did you use Word Magic on Mu Long?”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Chinese speakers normally favor indirectness, but the use of '到底' strips away social pleasantries to address an urgent crisis directly.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
on/to someone's person
Frequently used with '发生' to describe events, changes, or phenomena happening directly to a person.
on earth; what in the world
Used in interrogative sentences to emphasize the speaker's urgency and demand for the ultimate truth.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“on Funing Street in Guoshan District?”
“Seriously, what happened to you?”
“What guy? What exactly happened?”
“what exactly happened?”
“What happened here?”
“What exactly went down?”
“what exactly happened?”
“what happened?”