又何不让她试试 义庄正好有一桩命案
“why don't you let her give it a try? There happens to be a murder case at the morgue.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Determining the cause of death isn't difficult for her. If you have no other solutions,”
又何 不让 她 试试 义庄 正好有 一桩命案
“why don't you let her give it a try? There happens to be a murder case at the morgue.”
可以让她去试一试
“I can let her give it a try.”
“You have nothing to lose, so take a gamble on her skills.”
Official autopsies in historical China were handled with caution due to cultural sanctity surrounding dead bodies, making testing a novel investigator's skills on an unclaimed body in a mortuary a pragmatic compromise.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
why not; why shouldn't one
A rhetorical, slightly literary phrasing used to offer a constructive proposal or suggestion.
temporary mortuary; public morgue in traditional China
A historical term referring to a communal repository for unburied coffins and corpses awaiting burial or autopsy.
homicide case; murder case
Formal legal and crime terminology referring to fatal criminal incidents.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“before settling things with Zhuang Zhuang?”
“Otherwise, she wouldn't have let Lord Zhou marry another.”
“Zhuang Zhuang, I can't hold it anymore.”
“She doesn't deserve banishment. But the strokes are no goner.”
“to take my wife as your goddaughter.”
“Director Zhuang and I don't have much to do, so we came to help out.”