那你可得让我好好活着
“Then you'd better keep me alive.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
这样啊
“Is that so?”
那你 可得 让我 好好活着
“Then you'd better keep me alive.”
谁打我
“Who hit me?”
“Now that you need me, you'd better take good care of me!”
In close Chinese relationships, playfully demanding care or protection is a way to reinforce intimacy and reciprocity without seeming vulnerable or serious.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
then you definitely must...
Emphatic spoken combination showing that a certain condition must strictly be fulfilled based on what was just said.
live well / stay alive and well
Can range from serious survival advice to a humorous exaggeration about taking care of oneself.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“You live well”
“So you have to stay alive”
“I could live a good life.”
“(You must live well)”
“You promised him to live well.”
“You must live.”