万一把日本人杀了 咱们就完蛋了
“If we kill the Japanese, we'll be doomed.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
大爹自己碰着日本人 大爹那脾气 你说打 骂
“He met the Japanese himself. I know his temper. You can beat and scold him.”
万一 把日本人 杀了 咱们就 完蛋了
“If we kill the Japanese, we'll be doomed.”
不至于 就一老头子
“It's just an old man.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Reflects the historical wartime reality where harming an occupying soldier brought lethal retaliation upon the entire household or community.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
just in case; if by any chance
Used at the start of a clause to introduce an unlikely but disastrous contingency.
be ruined; be doomed; finished
A highly colloquial idiom used when a situation has become hopeless or fatal.
Marks an imminent change of state, conveying the inescapable finality of being doomed.
