他们差点杀了你儿子 差点
“They almost killed your son. Almost...”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
怎么处理好
“How?”
他们 差点 杀了你 儿子 差点
“They almost killed your son. Almost...”
那不是没杀吗 我儿子现在在家里 好好的呢
“He's alive now. My son is safe and sound at home.”
“Wake up to reality! You can't just let this slide when your own son nearly died!”
Invoking a threat to one's child is often the strongest rhetorical appeal in Chinese culture to trigger emotional outrage and decisive defensive action.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
almost / nearly
Placed before a verb to indicate that an undesirable or desirable event came very close to happening but did not.
killed
Combines the action verb 'sha' with the completion result complement 'le'.