他们一开始就群殴我
“They started ganging up on me right away.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
是的
“Yes.”
他们 一开始就 群殴我
“They started ganging up on me right away.”
我见他们人多
“Seeing they outnumbered me,”
“They attacked me as a mob first, so anything I did was purely in self-defense.”
In Chinese legal mediation for street fights, establishing who struck first and who was outnumbered heavily influences fault allocation and compensation outcomes.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
right from the beginning
Highlights that a condition or action was present from the very start without delay.
gang up on / mob-beat
Commonly used in spoken accounts and police reports to describe collective physical assault against one person.