他颚骨受了伤不能说话
“His jaw is injured, he can't speak.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
他怎么了
“What's wrong with him?”
他颚骨 受了伤不能说话
“His jaw is injured, he can't speak.”
是这样啊
“I see.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Factual explanations of someone's physical disability or injury are commonly delivered plainly without excessive euphemisms in Chinese.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
got injured / suffered an injury
A common spoken collocation to describe sustaining a bodily injury.
unable to speak
Used to denote physical incapacity or situational prohibition regarding talking.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“It's not the first time people have talked about me.”
“Even teeth bite the tongue.”
“He lost two front teeth.”
“lost because they didn't speak up.”
“The parents might say some harsh things later.”
“I couldn't bite even with good teeth.”