听凌霄说昨天晚上 你和唐灿吵架了 怎么回事
“I heard Ling Xiao say you had a quarrel with Tang Can last night. What's the matter?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
脑子里想些什么呢 勒死我啦 勒什么勒 对了
“What is on your mind? You are strangling me. No. By the way,”
听凌霄说昨天晚上 你和唐灿 吵架了 怎么回事
“I heard Ling Xiao say you had a quarrel with Tang Can last night. What's the matter?”
她先说我的
“She criticized me first.”
“I know you two fought, so explain yourself and tell me what went wrong.”
In close Chinese peer groups and non-traditional households, members closely monitor one another's relationships and actively step in to mediate interpersonal conflicts.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
heard from [someone] that...
An essential conversational pattern used to introduce hearsay or secondhand reports gently.
to quarrel; to have an argument
The standard spoken Chinese word for verbal conflicts or spats between friends, couples, or family.
what's going on; what happened
A very common informal question demanding clarification when something unexpected or problematic occurs.
Marks the completed event of having argued, confirming the occurrence of the fight.
