死刑也好 无期也好
“Death penalty. Life imprisonment.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
杀人偿命
“Pay for murder.”
死刑 也好 无期 也好
“Death penalty. Life imprisonment.”
怎么判我都认
“I will accept any sentence.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
The mindset reflects the traditional concept that taking a life requires paying with one's own life, leading to complete acceptance of ultimate punishment.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
death penalty; capital punishment
A formal legal term used in criminal contexts.
life imprisonment (short for 无期徒刑)
Common spoken shorthand for a life sentence without a fixed term.
whether it is A or B; either way
A correlative construction used to express indifference between multiple alternatives.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“or die.”
“That man deserved to die.”
“Even if it kills me,”
“Thus, you had no choice but to silence her.”
“-If she doesn't stay to serve me, -I don't want to die! she's to be executed?”
“was alive or dead.”