我最初想当仵作的时候
“When I first wanted to be a coroner,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
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“It does.”
我最初想当仵作的时候
“When I first wanted to be a coroner,”
衙门都不肯收
“Yamen wouldn't accept me.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In imperial China, coroners were marginalized outcast professions due to taboos around handling corpses, explaining why government offices initially refused them.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
back when I first wanted to...
A natural storytelling opening to introduce past aspirations and early obstacles.
coroner; forensic examiner in ancient China
Specifically refers to coroners in pre-modern dynastic Chinese legal contexts.