死的时候一把火把这剧本烧了 带走呢
“you should burn the script and take it to your grave.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
说了秦娥再不演 就让你
“If Qin'e doesn't perform it,”
死的时候 一把 火把这剧本 烧了 带走呢
“you should burn the script and take it to your grave.”
没说过这话
“Didn't she say that?”
“You swore you would rather burn the script and take it to the grave than let anyone else perform it—don't deny it now.”
Taking something to the grave by burning it reflects traditional funerary customs, used here metaphorically to signal absolute artistic devotion or stubborn possessiveness.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
a burst of fire; setting a fire
Commonly used with the disposal verb 烧 (to burn) to emphasize total destruction by fire.
to take away; to take along (metaphorically, into the afterlife)
Used here in a folk cultural sense of burning items to accompany someone into death.
Adds a rhetorical, lingering question tone to press the listener about an unfulfilled claim.
