他们真是被山匪所杀
“Were they really killed by bandits?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
再去死呢
“before dying?”
他们 真是 被山匪所杀
“Were they really killed by bandits?”
李大人
“Lord Li,”
“You have to believe me, bandits really killed them, not me!”
In historical settings, reporting deaths caused by outlaws versus internal treason carried vastly different judicial punishments for officials involved.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
killed by ...
A formal and literary passive construction used to denote who committed a killing.
mountain bandits
A noun frequently encountered in historical and period dramas referring to outlaws.