示众的屍体被他们弄走时
“When they took away the body on public display...”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
在逐步增大
“...is gradually increasing.”
示众的 屍体 被 他们 弄走 时
“When they took away the body on public display...”
“...the situation was almost uncontrollable.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Exposing a corpse or criminal to the public ('示众') has deep historical roots in Chinese society as a state mechanism of deterrence and psychological dominance.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
publicly display / expose to public view (as punishment)
Often used in historical or criminal contexts to describe displaying a body or prisoner to publicly deter or humiliate.
take away / remove
A highly colloquial resultative construction indicating getting rid of or spiriting away an object.
Functions as a temporal marker indicating 'at the moment when' or 'while'.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“So someone quickly transported the bodies back onto a ship”
“It seems very likely that they hid the body.”
“what about these corpses?”
“The body was snatched, wasn't it?”
“come out and collect the body!”
“transport the body to the Bureau.”