不小心从楼梯上摔了下去 燕子楼的人都看见了
“but accidentally fell down the stairs. The people in Swallow House all saw it.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“At the second ke of Xu hour, Liu Ying'er ran out in a huff. I got up to chase her,”
不小心 从楼梯上 摔了下去 燕子楼的人 都看见了
“but accidentally fell down the stairs. The people in Swallow House all saw it.”
“I really don't know anything about Xiuhong House, and I certainly haven't been there.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Citing public commercial establishments and their patrons as witnesses is a common trope in historical crime dramas to verify an alibi.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
accidentally / carelessly
Standard everyday phrase to indicate that an action was unintentional.
fell down / tumbled down
Combines the verb to fall with directional complements to describe falling downward.
Marks the completion of the falling action and the witnessing event.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“When I chased after her, I lost my footing and tumbled down the stairs.”
“and you fell down the stairs by accident?”
“I just fell on the stairs.”
“fell down the stairs himself,”