他的手已经被砍伤了
“His hand had already been cut.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“We eventually found him in a haystack.”
他的手已经 被砍伤了
“His hand had already been cut.”
砍他的是赵勇 还有他的弟弟赵刚
“Zhao Yong and his brother Zhao Gang did it.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Chinese narrative discourse heavily utilizes resultative verb compounds like 'slash-wound' to concisely deliver both the violent action and its physical outcome simultaneously.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
already (been ...)
Combines the aspect adverb for completion with the passive marker to indicate an action already completed by an external force.
slashed and wounded
A resultative verb compound combining the action of cutting/slashing with the result of injury.
Marks a change of state and completes the past event narrative.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“The bite mark on his hand”
“You know very well how my hand got injured.”
“How did you get that injury on your hand?”
“and sometimes it hurts the one holding it.”
“Your hand is wounded. Let me treat it.”
“Then what about the injury on your hand?”