不然性命难保
“She could've died.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
小玉已经和我说了 半个月前 幸得法师相救
“Yu told me how you were kind enough to save her half a month ago.”
不然 性命难保
“She could've died.”
多谢法师
“Thank you, Master.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Chinese storytelling, saving a person's life creates an immense moral obligation of gratitude towards the savior.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
hard to preserve one's life / one's life would be in mortal danger
A dramatic four-character idiom used to describe life-or-death peril.