而且一旦停药
“And once they stop taking it,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“the elites will surely be addicted to it.”
而且一旦停药
“And once they stop taking it,”
就会狂躁难安
“they will become irritable and restless,”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Chinese martial arts and court drama narratives, debilitating drugs or poisons are frequently used as insidious plot devices to control powerful elites.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
once; as soon as
Used as a conjunction to introduce a conditional scenario, often preceding an undesirable result.
to discontinue medication
Standard clinical or everyday term for stopping a course of medicine.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Fei will be fine once she takes the medicine.”
“Anyway, the antidote takes two hours.”
“Why did you stop? Keep going.”
“it's not even enough for her medication.”
“The medicine won't stop. Don't worry.”
“that one day I'd stop taking this medicine for good!”