好人就不应该命短
“A good person shouldn't live short.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
为什么要杀李宏伟 安警官 你是个好人
“Why do you want to kill Li Hongwei? Officer An, you're a good man.”
好人就不应该命短
“A good person shouldn't live short.”
你出去
“You can go out.”
“You deserve to live, which is why I spared you.”
Chinese moral sentiment holds deep sorrow when moral people suffer hardship or die young, epitomized by the idiom '好人不长命' (good people seldom live long).
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
short-lived; die young
Colloquial term describing premature death, often used in emotional or fatalistic contexts.
simply ought to; naturally should
Used with emphatic '就' to express strong belief in what is naturally right or justified.