好把我们都吓回乡下去
“so we'll both be scared back to the countryside,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“just want to scare Yi and me out of our wits,”
好把我们都 吓回乡下去
“so we'll both be scared back to the countryside,”
对吧
“right?”
“They are deliberately trying to terrify us so we run away, but I see right through their scheme.”
In Chinese narrative contexts, being forced back to one's rural ancestral home signifies total defeat and expulsion from urban opportunities.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
so as to; in order to
Used to introduce the underlying objective or consequence of a preceding action.
scare back to the countryside
A vivid colloquial phrase expressing driving someone away in fear to where they came from.