- 是谁干的？ - 取决于当天的情况吧
“- [Terry] By who? - Depended on the day really.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
在这里、在学校、在家里
“Here. At school. At home.”
- 是谁 干的 ？ - 取决于 当天 的 情况 吧
“- [Terry] By who? - Depended on the day really.”
但我们总是活该的
“But we always deserved it.”
“It does not even matter who specifically did it; someone always finds a reason to hurt us.”
In high-pressure social or familial hierarchies, chronic victims often normalize recurring mistreatment as an unpredictable yet inevitable daily reality.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
depends on
A highly versatile formal and informal connective used to state conditional factors.
who did this
Commonly used in spoken Chinese to ask who is responsible for a bad act or mishap.
Softens the statement into an estimation, conveying uncertainty mixed with cynical resignation.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Who did this?”
“[Tomb of Xia Gang, a loving father] Who did this?”
“Then who was it? Who did it? - I don't know. - Who did it? It wasn't me.”
“Who on earth did this?”
“Do you have any suspects?”
“Who did this? And for what purpose?”