都是蒋天叫我杀的 遗体在哪儿
“Jiang Tian told me to kill them. Where are the bodies?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
寻找谭思言同志的下落
“at all costs.”
都是蒋天 叫我杀的 遗体 在哪儿
“Jiang Tian told me to kill them. Where are the bodies?”
把铁桶里
“[Jinghai City First Detention Center] In a metal bucket”
“I was just following Jiang Tian's orders; he is the mastermind, not me.”
In legal interrogations, suspects often emphasize having acted solely on a superior's orders to mitigate personal responsibility.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
told me to / ordered me to
A common colloquial way to express that someone ordered or instructed you to do something.
where is it
Standard Northern Mandarin spoken interrogative phrase for asking location.
Functions within the 'shi...de' construction to emphasize the agent who gave the murder order.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“The appearance of the body at this time is highly suspicious.”
“It seems very likely that they hid the body.”
“Where did you find the body?”
“Li Meng, I know where Zhou Na's body is.”