她是在公司脑溢血的
“She had a brain hemorrhage at the office.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Is that a lot? That's a human life.”
她是在公司 脑溢血 的
“She had a brain hemorrhage at the office.”
“And she'd been at the office for dozens of hours straight before death.”
“You cannot evade this; she collapsed right on our premises because of the job.”
Workplace deaths caused by prolonged overtime are a major legal and ethical battleground in China, where proving that an episode happened on company premises is pivotal for compensation claims.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
cerebral hemorrhage / brain bleed
A medical term frequently associated in public discourse with extreme exhaustion, stress, and overwork ('karoshi').
to have an accident / for something bad to happen
A very common euphemism used when a mishap, medical emergency, or fatal incident occurs.
Part of the '是...的' focal construction, focusing strongly on the location ('at the company') as the key piece of evidence.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“And she'd been at the office for dozens of hours straight before death.”
“that she fell seriously ill and suddenly went deaf”
“she's the general manager's favorite.”
“It was her!”
“It was her.”
“What happened to her back then?”