死人了
“Someone's dead…”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
死人了
“Someone's dead!”
死人了
“Someone's dead…”
你不是太医署的？
“You're not from the Imperial Medical Office.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Short, subjectless verb phrases are standard in Chinese to broadcast sudden danger or catastrophe to bystanders instantly.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
someone died; someone is dead
An exclamation used in emergency situations upon discovering a corpse or fatal event.
Signals the sudden realization or emergence of a new, catastrophic situation.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Someone's dead! Someone's dead!”
“will vanish as the body deteriorates.”
“So the body entered before I did.”
“Judging solely from a body that had already been cleaned,”
“During decomposition, the body was covered in algae.”
“Where is the body? I threw it into Cangduo Lake.”