只要您不殃及我的家人
“As long as you don't involve my family,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
有事你去办事啊 这把钱还上了 这不就完了吗
“Then go take care of it! Pay back the money, and we're done.”
只要 您不殃及我的 家人
“As long as you don't involve my family,”
我什么都是您的
“I'm yours for anything,”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Chinese culture, protecting family from one's personal debts or misdeeds represents an ultimate moral bottom line, reflecting deep filial and familial duty.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to bring disaster upon; to embroil
A formal or literary verb used in spoken Chinese to stress collateral damage or innocent victims getting hurt.
as long as...
Standard conditional construction used to establish a non-negotiable minimum term.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“lest you implicate the whole family.”
“I don't want to disappoint my family too.”
“Your family is my family.”
“he didn't even care about the lives of you and your son.”
“I hate to get involved in the family power struggle.”
“I won't disturb you two.”