我妹妹和夫婿险些被杀
“My sister and husband were nearly killed!”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我们才是苦主
“We are the victims!”
我妹妹和夫婿险些被杀
“My sister and husband were nearly killed!”
“How can you not distinguish right from wrong?”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In traditional Chinese society, victims had to forcefully demonstrate extreme suffering and peril to convince magistrates to take their grievances seriously.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
nearly; narrowly escaped
A formal written or elevated spoken adverb used before verbs to express close calls or near disasters.
husband
An archaic or formal literary term for husband, common in historical period dramas.
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“If I die by your hand,”
“- My sister died here for no reason. - Murder.”
“wouldn't I really be killing your sister?”
“Madam doesn't allow us to kill.”
“They killed my sister.”
“You killed my sister.”