你掉钱眼里了 你杀人不用偿命吗
“You're blinded by cash. Don't you have to pay with your life if you kill someone?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
钱重要命重要啊
“What's more important, money or your life?”
你 掉钱眼里 了 你杀人 不用 偿命 吗
“You're blinded by cash. Don't you have to pay with your life if you kill someone?”
“Can you guarantee the police will never catch you?”
“You are completely blinded by greed and walking straight into your own destruction.”
The idiom 'killing requires paying with one's life' reflects the traditional Chinese cultural belief in inevitable cosmic and legal retribution for extreme moral transgressions.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
obsessed with money; money-grubbing
A common colloquial idiom used to criticize someone whose sole focus and motivation is financial gain at the expense of morals or sense.
a life for a life; to pay with one's life for murder
A traditional Chinese moral and legal idiom describing the inescapable ultimate penalty for killing someone.
Used at the end of a rhetorical question to demand accountability and underscore the absurdity of the other person's thinking.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“He's all about money now.”
“Isn't killing a crime? Let's make a bet.”
“You're really obsessed with money.”
“Someone is just obsessed with money.”
“You're buying a life.”
“and never pay with your own?”