他不但把楼下跟天台上挖了个遍
“he's dug up everything from downstairs to the rooftop.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
冉方旭怎么了？ 冉警官他好像疯了 从昨天到现在
“- What's going on with Ran Fangxu? - He's lost it. Since yesterday,”
他 不但 把楼下跟天台上 挖了个遍
“he's dug up everything from downstairs to the rooftop.”
还把地库和小区外面全都给刨了
“Even the parking garage and outside the compound.”
“He's acting like a maniac digging up the entire building.”
In Chinese crime dramas, an investigator digging up dirt with their bare hands symbolizes extreme emotional distress and an obsessive refusal to let a case go cold.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
dug up everywhere / excavated thoroughly
Use 'Verb + 了个遍' to emphasize that an action was carried out exhaustively across every possible corner or place.
not only... but also...
A standard correlative structure used to escalate from one surprising fact to an even more extreme one.
