就说这个人已经 凉了好几个小时了
“they said he'd been dead for several hours.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
他们家人给放下来了 120来了以后呢
“His family took him down. After the ambulance arrived,”
就说 这个人 已经 凉了 好几个小时了
“they said he'd been dead for several hours.”
“I just didn't expect a hanged person would be like this.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In blunt spoken Chinese, '凉了' (to have gone cold) is a vivid colloquial way of describing someone who has already passed away, stripping away clinical formality.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
gone cold (slang/colloquial for dead; can also mean ruined or finished)
Literally describes a body cooling after death, but heavily used in modern internet slang to mean 'doomed' or 'screwed'.
several hours
A natural collocation indicating an indefinite period lasting at least three or four hours.
Marks a completed change of state, indicating the body has already turned cold.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“will be over if we stop.”
“It is cold now. How am I supposed to eat it?”
“Wait a minute. Why is my meal cold?”
“They might be cold, right? Then don't eat any if you think they are cold. Of course I'll eat.”
“It was cold last night. I can't hold it in since I'm getting old.”
“never completely turned cold.”