难道他们要杀死整船的人吗
“Are they going to kill everyone on this ship?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Not to mention that they've prepared so much of it.”
难道 他们要杀死整船的人 吗
“Are they going to kill everyone on this ship?”
“What's wrong with you? Didn't you tell me”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Combining the conjectural marker 难道 with the question particle 吗 powerfully conveys extreme dread and emotional denial in critical situations.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
everyone on the whole ship
A colloquial way to emphasize the totality of people inside a specific vessel or container.
Converts the rhetorical speculation introduced by 难道 into a desperate question seeking denial.