渭县近乎半数人家
“Nearly half the households in Wei County”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我曾回老家为她扶灵
“and I returned to my hometown to help escort her coffin.”
渭县 近乎半数 人家
“Nearly half the households in Wei County”
都为她设立了灵棚
“set up mourning sheds for her,”
“Her standing and virtue were so extraordinary that ordinary people spontaneously honored her.”
In traditional Chinese culture, community members setting up mourning sheds for someone reflects supreme communal esteem and recognized moral virtue.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
nearly; close to
A slightly formal adverb useful for approximating large amounts or states.
half the number; half
Use this formal quantity noun when describing statistical or communal proportions.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“grain prices in Wei County remained exorbitantly high.”
“Every dam in the nine counties”
“Our Wei County was relatively fortunate.”
“it feels unfamiliar,”
“I have an ancestral house in the county.”
“He's the former magistrate of Wei County,”