保不准已经是一具尸体了
“he might already be a corpse.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
这会儿啊
“At this point,”
保不准 已经是一具尸体了
“he might already be a corpse.”
你猜得没错
“You guessed right.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Colloquial euphemisms or blunt appraisals like this are commonly used by seasoned characters in suspense dramas to display indifference to mortal danger.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
quite possibly; hard to say for sure but likely
A vivid colloquial phrase used in northern Chinese to express a probable, often negative outcome.
a corpse
Standard measure word combination for a dead human body.
Marks a change of state, stressing that the person has likely crossed from living to dead.