你会害死她的
“You'll kill her!”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你放手啊
“Let go!”
你会 害死 她的
“You'll kill her!”
他不会放手的
“He won't let go.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Combining action verbs with '死' (death) is a staple rhetorical device in Chinese cinema to evoke maximum life-or-death tension.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
cause someone's death; get someone killed
A strong resultative verb compound used to highlight extreme negative consequences caused by negligence or rash action.
Emphasizes the certainty and inevitability of the disastrous outcome.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“She must have been killed.”
“So much so that you wanted her dead.”
“She's the one who caused Mother's death, committing the heinous crime.”
“she killed my child?”
“He won't have the heart to kill her.”
“Is she going to die?”