若是到了无路可走的时候
“that if there truly were no way out,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
若是到了无路可走的时候
“that if there truly were no way out,”
就把你弃了
“you should be abandoned.”
“Do not count on loyalty if our survival is pushed to the absolute brink.”
In high-stakes dynastic power struggles, pawns and allies are routinely sacrificed when survival is at stake.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
if; in case
A common conjunction introducing a condition, slightly more formal than '如果'.
at a dead end; having no way out
An idiom describing desperate situations where all options have been exhausted.
Marks the emergence of a changed, critical state of having no options left.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“if I hadn't been so desperate,”
“Or do that to her in front of me. When he reaches a dead end,”
“it's still come to this desperate point.”