当年你开枪打死我哥的时候
“Years ago, by the time you shot my brother dead,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
第一个问题
“Here is the first question.”
当年你 开枪打死 我哥 的时候
“Years ago, by the time you shot my brother dead,”
“You took my brother's life, and now you must face the truth about whether it was justified.”
Avenging or seeking the truth behind the death of a sibling represents a profound moral obligation in Chinese familial ethics.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
back then / in those years
Sets a reflective or retrospective frame referring to a significant past event or era.
shot to death
A resultative verb compound combining '开枪' (shoot) and '打死' (kill).
Functions as part of the temporal construction '……的时候' (at the time when).
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“shoot me dead”
“shoot”
“And his gun was never found.”
“"Have I fired a gun?" Have you fired a gun?”
“What do you think? Have you fired a gun?”
“I'll teach you a lesson for your father! Put down! I'll kill you! Put it down, or I'll shoot!”