你就要把这个剧本带进棺材里
“you'll burn this script”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
胡师都跟我说了 说秦娥不演
“Master Hu told me that if Qin'e doesn't perform,”
你 就要 把这个 剧本 带进棺材里
“you'll burn this script”
“and take it to your grave. Is that true?”
“Are you really so stubborn that you would rather let this masterpiece die with you than let someone else perform it?”
In traditional Chinese opera and theater, master playwrights and performers often guard their signature works fiercely, preferring a piece to pass away with them rather than be performed poorly by an unworthy successor.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
To take something to one's grave / into the coffin.
Used metaphorically to describe keeping a secret, a grudge, or a prized possession until death without sharing it.