交州城都要臭了
“the whole city of Jiaozhou will stink.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
交州城 都要臭了
“the whole city of Jiaozhou will stink.”
您看
“Please take a look.”
“We are out of time, deal with this mess right now!”
In Chinese rhetoric, invoking an intolerable sensory collapse like widespread stench is a common device to compel swift executive action.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
about to stink up / starting to rot
Use this structure (都...了) to exaggerate that a negative threshold is being crossed.
Indicates an imminent change of state and adds a sense of urgency.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Jiaozhou will survive against all odds”
“Jiaozhou is sending troops.”
“Jiaozhou and Great Tang have never abandoned all of you.”
“Why has the Jiaozhou army not gone out to meet them?”
“Jiaozhou is facing an urgent crisis.”
“and rush here in the dead of night?”