还不是审那闹鬼的审的
“All from interrogating that haunted case.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
臭死我了
“You stink.”
还不是 审 那 闹鬼 的 审 的
“All from interrogating that haunted case.”
这谁啊
“Who is this?”
“Don't judge me for how bad I smell; I suffered doing this ridiculous interrogation job!”
Chinese speakers frequently use the rhetorical frame '还不是...审的/搞的' to vent discontent about external burdens that caused their present misfortune.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
isn't it all because of...
A rhetorical device used to point out an obvious, usually troublesome cause while complaining.
haunted / ghost incident
Refers colloquially to supernatural haunting or bizarre suspicious disturbances.
Functions nominally at the end of the clause to attribute the cause or consequence of an action.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Whether I go interrogate him is another.”
“My house is still haunted. I really need you.”
“We can't just let him go, can we?”
“You want to know how we interrogate criminals?”
“the only ones who can "play ghosts" are humans themselves.”
“a restless ghost,”