招了就是十年八年
“But if they confess, their prison sentences would be 8 to 10 years.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
不招就是蹲半年
“They'll only be in jail for half a year if they don't betray us.”
招了 就是 十年八年
“But if they confess, their prison sentences would be 8 to 10 years.”
除非他们想不开
“So I don't think they'll betray us.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In criminal subcultures, confessing often leads directly to heavy formal sentences, which makes holding out ('扛住') a calculated survival strategy despite police pressure.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
confessed / talked to police
A highly colloquial and criminal-underworld term for confessing a crime to authorities.
eight to ten years / around a decade
An idiomatic pairing used to denote an approximate sentence or time period of about ten years.
Marks the conditional completion of the confession action.
