想杀人灭口
“trying to silence us.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我想一定是王显
“I figured it had to be Wang Xian”
想 杀人灭口
“trying to silence us.”
我太害怕了
“I was terrified.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
A pervasive trope in Chinese legal cases and drama where perpetrators eliminate witnesses to avoid bureaucratic justice.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to murder someone to keep a secret / silence a witness
A common four-character idiom frequently heard in crime, suspense, and historical dramas.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“silence witnesses.”
“Yet, for your own selfish gain, you killed them all!”
“You want to silence him.”
“and even tried to have me killed to cover his tracks.”