闻鸿盛想杀我灭口
“Does Wen Hongsheng want to silence me?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
怎么
“What?”
闻鸿盛想 杀我灭口
“Does Wen Hongsheng want to silence me?”
“Why would you think that? How could I not think that?”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
While spoken Chinese favors indirectness in polite society, extreme peril prompts blunt, unfiltered declarative statements to shock the listener into belief.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
kill me to silence me / eliminate me as a witness
A dramatic four-character idiom frequently heard in crime, suspense, and thriller dramas.