宋时俊神智已失
“Song Shijun has lost his mind.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
蔡平春怎么来了
“Why did Cai Pingchun come?”
宋 时 俊 神智已失
“Song Shijun has lost his mind.”
说不出什么了
“He can't say anything now.”
“It's pointless to interrogate him; he's completely out of his mind.”
Traditional Chinese medicine views 'Shenzhi' as the seat of consciousness and mental clarity governed by the heart, so losing 'Shenzhi' indicates complete mental breakdown.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to have completely lost one's sanity or mental faculties
A semi-formal, literary four-character expression commonly heard in period dramas to denote insanity or delirium.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Song Shijun isn't dead yet.”
“Song Shijun silenced them all,”
“for her son Song Yuzhi,”
“Song Shijun may become a living corpse.”
“Song Shijun killed the witness.”
“so Song Shijun tried to silence him.”