根本不足以让我们在异国他乡 拼上性命
“are not worth dying in a foreign land.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“It's very dangerous. Those treasures”
根本不 足以让我们在异国他乡 拼上性命
“are not worth dying in a foreign land.”
董小姐 你的对手看来
“Miss Dong, your enemy will not stop”
“Something does not add up, and I refuse to die for just this.”
In traditional Chinese thought, dying in a foreign land away from ancestral soil is considered a profound misfortune, making '异国他乡拼上性命' an especially weighty objection.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
simply not enough to / entirely insufficient to
Used to express strong, definitive rational negation regarding justification or capability.
a foreign land / faraway places
A set idiomatic phrase highlighting isolation and vulnerability away from one's homeland.
risk one's life / lay one's life on the line
Used to describe undertaking an endeavor with extreme, life-threatening stakes.
