只勉强吊着口气 也不知道
“It's only barely keeping him alive. We don't even know how long he can hold on.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
但说这毒蹊跷 并不能全解
“But they said the poison is strange. It can't be fully neutralized.”
只 勉强 吊着口气 也不知道
“It's only barely keeping him alive. We don't even know how long he can hold on.”
能撑到什么时候
“We don't even know how long he can hold on.”
“They are on the verge of dying at any second; prepare for the worst.”
In traditional Chinese medicine concepts, 'qi' (breath/vital energy) constitutes life force; 'hanging on to a breath' vividly expresses the threshold between life and death.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
hanging by a thread; barely clinging to life
A vivid somatic idiom describing someone critically ill who is only kept alive by sheer lingering vitality.
barely; with difficulty
Used before verbs to indicate that an action or state is maintained only with extreme effort.
