病倒在路边奄奄一息
“dying by the roadside.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“I was once an orphaned beggar,”
病倒在路边奄奄一息
“dying by the roadside.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In martial arts (Wuxia) culture, recounting one's survival at the brink of death emphasizes the sacred debt of life owed to one's savior or master.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to fall ill; to collapse from sickness
Used to describe being completely incapacitated by a sudden or severe illness.
on one's last breath; barely clinging to life
A literary four-character idiom used to describe someone near death or something on the verge of extinction.