我若是娶了你 就等同于把你拉到火坑之中
“Marrying you would be dragging you down with me.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
郭妗对我起了疑心
“They said that Guo Jin had become suspicious of me.”
我 若是 娶了你 就 等同于 把你拉到 火坑 之中
“Marrying you would be dragging you down with me.”
我本以为
“I thought you could stay on the mountain”
“I care about your safety too much to ruin your life by marrying you.”
In traditional Chinese narratives, a noble lover often rejects romance to safeguard the beloved from guilt by association or political doom.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
a fiery pit / a living hell / an abyss of misery
A figurative metaphor used to describe an extremely perilous, miserable, or destructive situation.
to be equivalent to / to equate to
Used to establish a definitive logical or moral equivalence between two actions or situations.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I'll marry you, okay?”
“but once we're married, you'll have to stay by my side always.”
“will still marry Ruo.”
“if you want to marry me.”
“If I were a man, would I make a fuss over a minor injury like this?”
“And if I don't do as you say?”