按理这尸首不出几日便会浮上来
“the corpse should have floated in a few days.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“When water didn't freeze anywhere,”
按理这尸首不出几日便会浮上来
“the corpse should have floated in a few days.”
早该有人发现才是
“Someone should have found it already.”
“Something is unnatural here; someone must have hidden the body on purpose.”
Traditional Chinese investigative narratives heavily rely on reasoning from natural order ('按理') to expose human deception and concealed crimes.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
normally; according to reason
Used to preface an expected natural outcome before introducing a contradiction or mystery.
within a few days
A formal and literary way to say in just a couple of days.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“No wonder these corpses rotted like that.”
“God knows what these Easterners planned to do with them.”
“These two girls are the only ones here who are not afraid of the dead body.”
“His eagerness clearly means he doesn't want us near the corpse first.”
“You didn't look carefully at the corpse.”