我越想越害怕
“I felt increasingly worried.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我若不这么做 她便将我和裴愈的事告诉圣上
“but Consort Li threatened that if I didn't do it, she'd tell the Emperor about Pei Yu and me.”
我 越想越害怕
“I felt increasingly worried.”
本来想告诉师父
“I wanted to tell Master,”
“I was completely terrified and felt I had no other choice.”
Confessing profound fear is often used pragmatically in Chinese interpersonal appeals to reduce perceived moral culpability.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
becoming more and more frightened the more one ponders it
A vivid expression using the '越...越...' correlative structure to describe escalating panic or anxiety.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I thought about it, the more scared I was.”
“I panicked.”
“The more I thought about it these last few days, the more scared I got.”
“You wanted me to live in constant fear of being watched.”
“After calming down, the more I thought about it, the more uneasy I became.”