只是逃跑的时候伤了腿
“She hurt her leg while escaping.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
小妹没事
“She's fine.”
只是逃跑的时候伤了腿
“She hurt her leg while escaping.”
一时下不来床
“She's bedridden for now.”
“Don't panic, it was dangerous but she only hurt her leg.”
Using minimizers like 'merely' when reporting an injury reflects the common Chinese habit of softening bad news to keep family members from panicking.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
only; merely; it's just that
Used to soften a negative statement or downplay the seriousness of an outcome.
injured one's leg
Natural spoken verb-object collocation for sustaining a leg injury.
Indicates the completion of the action and the resulting injured state.
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“He was stunned by the impact. By the time he got up, they were gone.”
“He nearly got badly hurt for it.”
“You're injured”
“He's injured.”
“They all ran away!”
“I really can't run anymore!”