那可真是要了末将全家的命啊
“it could cost my entire family's lives!”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
再有个什么闪失
“If anything goes wrong,”
那 可真 是 要了 末将全家 的命 啊
“it could cost my entire family's lives!”
洛将军
“General Luo,”
“If anything goes wrong, my family is completely ruined, so please have mercy!”
In traditional Chinese society, an individual official's fate was tied to his entire clan; invoking the 'whole family's lives' was the strongest plea a subordinate could make.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to take someone's life / to be the death of someone
Used both literally and figuratively to dramatize an unbearable catastrophe.
truly / indeed would be
Emphatic adverbial construction used to highlight certainty or gravity.
Intensifies the emotional outcry and desperate plea for mercy.