他被一个女人咬伤了
“he was bitten by a woman.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
但在这之前
“But before this,”
他被一个女人咬伤了
“he was bitten by a woman.”
所以去了医院
“So he went to the hospital.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Chinese narrative reports rely heavily on paired action-result verbs (such as 咬伤) to clearly state the outcome of an event in minimal words.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to bite and injure; bite wound
A resultative complement combining '咬' (to bite) and '伤' (to injure).
was bitten and injured by...
Standard passive structure using '被' to indicate the receiver of an action and the harm caused.
Indicates completion of the event and realization of the state change.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“The bite mark on his hand”
“Just consider it a dog bite.”
“that the man was slashed on the neck by you,”
“He wasn't bitten to death. He was poisoned to death by the bats.”
“laying hands on a woman?”
“or that sales lady bitten by a dog? I don't care if you get it.”