也许是没控制好毒虫反噬了
“Maybe they lost control, and the insects turned on their hosts.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
这个我也不知道
“I don't know.”
也许是没控制好毒虫反噬了
“Maybe they lost control, and the insects turned on their hosts.”
我早就听闻南赵
“I've heard”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Chinese folklore and martial arts genres, dark arts or sorcery such as Gu insects inevitably backfire violently if the practitioner's discipline wavers.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to backfire / to turn against its master
Originally describing a beast biting back, it is widely used in modern Chinese for schemes or weapons that backfire disastrously.
perhaps it is / maybe because
A common conversational hedge used to present a tentative theory without claiming certainty.
Indicates completion or a resulting change of state from the failed control.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“implanted in him before he left for the capital.”
“You didn't poison it, did you?”
“Isn't he already poisoned?”
“had been incubating insects inside their bodies for a long time.”
“Those parasites might dig their way out from their stomachs anytime.”
“they scattered.”