他们果然大开杀戒了
“They've really started killing without restraint.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
他们 果然 大开杀戒 了
“They've really started killing without restraint.”
“The whole ship is hunting for you now.”
“My worst fears came true; these people are completely merciless.”
The idiom '大开杀戒' subverts the Buddhist concept of observing the precept against killing (戒杀), dramatizing the total abandonment of moral restraint.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
as expected / sure enough
Placed before a verb phrase to indicate that an outcome matches a prior suspicion, prediction, or warning.
to go on a killing spree / to massacre indiscriminately
A dramatic four-character idiom used in martial arts and thriller genres to describe unleashing lethal violence without restraint.
Marks a newly realized state or completed transition into indiscriminate violence.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“you went on a killing spree?”
“They have come for you.”
“You want me to kill all of them?”
“Unless you kill them all.”
“Why did you massacre everyone?”
“they might just kill us all”