你是说有人把那些尸体 迅速地运回了船上
“So someone quickly transported the bodies back onto a ship”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
人在海上
“They're on the sea.”
你是说 有人 把那些尸体 迅速地运回了船上
“So someone quickly transported the bodies back onto a ship”
并离开了礁石
“and left the reef?”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Directly restating an interlocutor's deduction using '你是说' is a standard way in Mandarin to ensure shared tactical consensus during high-stakes investigations.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
you mean to say / are you saying
A highly practical conversational chunk used to summarize or verify the previous speaker's implication.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“But the corpse was destroyed at once.”
“I must take his remains back”
“That was the officer who brought the bodies over last time with Constable Zhan.”