但是她由于胆子小 她没敢出去 等她出去看的时候
“but was too scared to go check. When she looked out,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
根据邻居反映 她今天早上 听到了很大的敲门声
“According to a neighbor, she heard loud knocking this morning,”
但是 她由于 胆子小 她 没敢出去 等她 出去看 的时候
“but was too scared to go check. When she looked out,”
“she found the door opposite wide open.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Chinese conversational storytelling, speakers frequently frame a delay with reasons like hesitation or timidity to build dramatic tension before the reveal.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
timid / easily frightened
An everyday idiom describing someone with little courage or someone who gets scared easily.
didn't dare to
Used to describe refraining from an action due to fear or hesitation.
by the time / when...
A classic narrative pattern indicating that when a subsequent moment arrived, conditions had already changed.
