山里下了一场大雨
“there was heavy rain in the mountains.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
前些日子
“A few days ago,”
山里 下了一场大雨
“there was heavy rain in the mountains.”
我路过的时候
“When I was passing by,”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Spoken Chinese storytelling often establishes temporal and environmental background before introducing the speaker's first-person actions.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
a downpour; a heavy rain
A standard quantifier-noun pairing where '场' serves as the verbal measure word for bouts of weather.
Marks the completion or realization of the rainfall event in the narrative past.