几次挽救李家于水火
“and has saved the Li family from disaster several times.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“yet she works tirelessly for the Li family every day”
几次挽救李家 于水火
“and has saved the Li family from disaster several times.”
可你们呢
“But what about you?”
“I rescued this family from total ruin multiple times, yet you treat me like an enemy.”
In traditional clan dynamics, saving the collective family unit confers immense moral authority, making ingratitude by other members particularly taboo.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
save [someone/a group] from dire straits / water and fire
A formal idiom used to emphasize rescuing an organization or person from an existential catastrophe.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“we haven't taken a single thing from the Li family.”
“The Li family took so much from us,”
“or the entire Li clan will be doomed,”
“the Li family will not hesitate to sacrifice everything.”
“I swear to protect the Li family”
“and won't wrong our Li family.”