听说有位女修进京杀人
“I heard a female cultivator had entered the capital and killed people,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
前些日子
“A few days ago,”
听说 有位女修进京杀人
“I heard a female cultivator had entered the capital and killed people,”
闹了很大的风波
“causing a huge uproar.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Entering the imperial capital to execute private vengeance represents an ultimate defiance of dynastic authority in Chinese narrative genres.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to hear tell; reportedly
Standard conversational frame to introduce hearsay, rumor, or secondhand information.
female cultivator
A specific xianxia/fantasy term referring to a female martial artist practicing Daoist or spiritual cultivation.
to enter the imperial capital
A historical collocation used when traveling into the political center of an empire.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Whoever kills that female cultivator”
“a certain female cultivator killed Mr. Gui,”
“that the two murder cases in the capital are connected to the Guanyin Town murders.”
“the story about that nun.”
“As for that female cultivator, she's nothing to fear.”
“On the way, I was abducted by a female cultivator.”