当时巷子里黑灯瞎火的
“It was pitch black in that alley.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
她被人强奸了
“She was raped.”
当 时巷子里 黑灯瞎火的
“It was pitch black in that alley.”
彤彤什么都看不清
“Tong couldn't see anything clearly,”
“It was too dark to be certain about what she actually saw.”
Narrow and unlit alleys (xiangzi) in Chinese towns are classic tropes for danger, lack of surveillance, and ambiguity in eyewitness testimony.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
pitch-dark; completely without light
A colloquial idiom describing an area devoid of illumination, often carrying a connotation of hazard or obscurity.
Emphasizes the descriptive state of the alley at that moment.