定是路上出了什么岔子
“Something must have gone wrong on the road.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
江京兆勿怪
“Prefect Jiang, please do not take offense.”
定是 路上 出了什么岔子
“Something must have gone wrong on the road.”
怎么耽搁了这么长时间
“Why were you delayed for so long?”
“Don't blame them yet; something unexpected must have happened.”
Attributing delays or failures to unexpected external circumstances ('a mishap on the road') helps preserve interpersonal harmony and softens potential reprimands.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
something went wrong; a mishap occurred
A very common spoken idiom to describe an unexpected complication or mistake.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“She must have met with some trouble on the road.”
“they encountered some accident on the way”
“She must be tied up and unable to come out.”