我怕她醒了以后把我也杀了
“I was afraid she'd kill me when she woke up.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“So I dragged her into a lifeboat. But I didn't dare stay there.”
我怕 她醒了以后 把我也杀了
“I was afraid she'd kill me when she woke up.”
“But I couldn't just leave her on deck either. I was worried someone else would get to her.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Explaining irrational or panicked actions through direct admissions of fear ('我怕...') is standard when attempting to exonerate oneself from complicity or blame.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
after waking up
Standard temporal structure 'verb + 了 + 以后' indicating an action that happens after a trigger event.
kill me as well
Employs the '把' disposal construction to emphasize the severe outcome directed toward the speaker.
Functions as an aspect marker indicating the completion of waking up or the fatal action.
