待我们回来不见尸首 也无计可施
“When we returned and found no body, we'd be helpless,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
这样 她们便可以神不知鬼不觉地 离开这里
“That way, they could sneak away without a trace.”
待我们 回来 不见尸首 也 无计可施
“When we returned and found no body, we'd be helpless,”
只能怀疑是被狐妖叼走 或者吃了
“only able to assume the fox demon took her or ate her.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In historical Chinese detective lore, criminals frequently manufactured disappearances to pin foul play on demons or mythical beasts to evade human investigation.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
at one's wits' end / devoid of any plans
A formal idiom to describe being left with zero workable options or strategies.
when / by the time that...
A literary-leaning temporal connective equivalent to '等到'.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Well, if we can find the body, we can prove”
“yet his body hasn't been found to this day.”
“yet you came back alive from a heap of corpses.”
“I'll go straight to collect your body.”
“come out and collect the body!”
“I'm afraid the body might deteriorate severely, causing us to lose many clues.”