我那正当防卫
“That was self-defense!”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我们不用回应
“Don't respond.”
我 那 正当防卫
“That was self-defense!”
正当防卫把人撞出了十几米
“Self-defense? You sent him flying!”
“I did nothing wrong legally; I was only protecting myself.”
The legal threshold for legitimate defense versus excessive force is a prominent subject of legal and public debate in modern Chinese society.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
legitimate self-defense; justifiable defense
A formal legal term widely adopted into colloquial speech when claiming self-protection.
that action of mine; what I did
Colloquial spoken shortcut for '我那个行为/做法' (what I did back then).
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“That was self-defense! Self-defense? You sent him flying!”
“It was self-defense. The gun? Where's the gun?”
“we must protect ourselves. This is called self-defense. But self-defense”
“That counts as self-defense, doesn't it?”
“That's excessive self-defense.”
“what they did should be self-defense.”