我姐她根本就没有吸毒
“My sister never actually used drugs.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
又当爹又当妈
“She was both a father and a mother to me.”
我姐她 根本就没有 吸毒
“My sister never actually used drugs.”
只是无意中吃了一次 我留下的毒品
“She just accidentally ate what I left behind.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Drug abuse carries severe legal and moral stigma in Chinese society, prompting family members to shoulder blame or fiercely defend one another.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
simply did not at all
Use this emphatic pattern to completely deny an accusation or factual assertion.
take illegal drugs
The standard spoken and written Chinese term for drug abuse.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“But your uncle used drugs. It's not a small matter.”
“Wang Ping using before had nothing to do with me, right?”
“she was determined to quit.”
“I don't know that many drug addicts.”
“I could quit drugs for you.”
“I think it was a drug overdose.”