然后他打了个喷嚏
“Then he sneezed.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
他 他光荣
“He-He was..."”
然后他打了个喷嚏
“Then he sneezed.”
“You know well about him. He can barely stop when sneezing.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
'然后' (and then) is the ubiquitous colloquial discourse marker used in spoken Chinese to chain sequential story events.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
sneezed once / sneezed
A classic verb-object collocation where '打' takes '喷嚏' as an object, separated by '了个'.
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Do I even need to report to you before I sneeze?”
“You know well about him. He can barely stop when sneezing.”
“”
“before his sudden death.”
“He took a drastic measure.”
“Did you hit him? Did you?”