那药就被冲走了
“the medicine was washed away.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
就是因为掉河里了
“Exactly because I fell into the river,”
那 药 就 被冲走了
“the medicine was washed away.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Using '就' combined with the passive '被' emphasizes the inevitability or unfortunate natural consequence of the mishap.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
washed away
A resultative complement combining 'dash/flush' with 'away' to describe water carrying something off.
Marks the completion of an action or an irreversible change of state.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“wasting countless herbs to produce this single pill.”
“You just took your medicine. Why did you come out?”
“because of that drug, then I have even more reason to cure him—”
“You poured the whole pack of medicine in?”
“if it hadn't been tampered with.”
“That medicine is truly unusual.”