死不瞑目 不要再说了
“still cannot rest in peace! Enough!”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
十五年前的上元夜 真的能忘了吗？ 端王与端王妃
“Can you really forget the Lantern Festival night 15 years ago? Your father and mother”
死不瞑目 不要再说了
“still cannot rest in peace! Enough!”
我这条命
“My life”
“Stop reminding me; you are tearing open a wound I can barely endure.”
Traditional Chinese belief holds that a deceased person who leaves unresolved injustice or unavenged wrongful death cannot rest in peace and will die with eyes wide open.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to die with grievances unavenged / die with regret
A powerful idiom meaning someone died with deep unresolved injustice, unable even to close their eyes in peace.
stop talking about it
A common phrase used to halt a sensitive, painful, or annoying topic immediately.
Functions as a change-of-state marker expressing an urgent demand to cease the ongoing action immediately.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“You couldn't even rest in peace.”
“I can't die in peace.”
“It will haunt me.”
“May you not rest in peace.”
“dying with eyes wide open.”
“I could go to my grave in peace.”