难道真是泡澡泡死的？
“Did they actually die from the bath?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
所以毒不是从口入的
“So the poison wasn't ingested orally.”
难道真是 泡澡 泡死的？
“Did they actually die from the bath?”
这是什么新鲜玩意儿？ 这是西域传过来的烟浴
“What's this fancy thing? It's the steam bath introduced from the Western Regions.”
“That makes no sense; someone must have tampered with the bath.”
Using '难道' marks intellectual resistance to an obvious or silly conclusion during forensic reasoning.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
could it be that; do not tell me that
Placed at the beginning of a sentence to introduce an incredulous rhetorical question.
to take a soak; to bathe
A common colloquial verb for soaking in a tub or bath.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“What? Think that's not a real career?”
“Perhaps he went to enjoy the hot springs.”
“What's the point in life?”
“What's the point in life?”
“...only survived by hiding in a bathtub.”
“Wasn't he supposed to have drowned?”