捅了十几二十刀 还要补枪
“they stabbed him a dozen times and finished him off with a shot.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
也不知道什么仇什么怨
“I don't know what kind of grudge they could've had against him—”
捅了十几二十刀 还要补枪
“they stabbed him a dozen times and finished him off with a shot.”
那帮毒贩
“Drug dealers like that”
“This wasn't just murder; it was sheer overkill and pure malice.”
In Chinese criminal discourse, excessive violence (overkill) is described with precise somatic counts to evoke the cultural concept of 'deep-seated grievance and merciless hatred' (深仇大恨).
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
ten or twenty / roughly a dozen or two
A colloquial way to express an approximate range between ten and twenty.
fire an extra finishing shot
Crime/police jargon referring to shooting a downed victim again to ensure they are dead.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“the one who stabbed Cheng over ten times?”
“I had no other choice. I could only shoot myself,”
“I busted it before.”
“Your spear technique has improved a lot.”
“The man you stabbed he's going to be all right.”
“Bullet Mark has started for a long time, but we just started.”