怎么说也是一条水长虫
“for some kind of river creature.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
不然
“people would've mistaken him”
怎么说也是 一条 水长虫
“for some kind of river creature.”
可是即便如此
“Yet even so,”
“Stop treating it like some mythical monster; it is just a big snake.”
In folk mysteries, pragmatic characters often counter supernatural dread by reducing feared apparitions to known mundane animals.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
at any rate / after all / no matter what
Used to introduce a baseline fact or minimum standard that cannot be denied.
water serpent / large aquatic snake
A colloquial or dialectal term for a snake found in or near water.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“You're like a maggot in the gutter,”
“are living in the sewer like rats.”
“as insignificant as insects."”
“How are you still alive, you maggot?”
“The so-called "water ghost" has always been nothing but rumors—”
“No one can say for sure what happens underwater.”