你总该明白断人钱财
“you should understand that cutting off someone's income”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
在教坊待了这么久
“After staying in the Music Office for so long,”
你 总该 明白 断人钱财
“you should understand that cutting off someone's income”
“is no different from killing their parents.”
“You know better than anyone that taking away their money will provoke deadly retaliation.”
The Chinese proverb '断人钱财，犹如杀人父母' equates taking away one's bread and butter with murdering their parents, emphasizing that economic survival evokes primal, unforgiving vengeance.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
ought to understand by now; surely should know
Used to remind someone that given their experience or status, they have no excuse for ignoring a basic truth.
to cut off someone's financial livelihood
The first clause of a common proverbial pairing highlighting the fatal severity of financial sabotage.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“you'll cut off a lot of people's income streams.”
“I'm not here to cut off anyone's income.”
“to cut off your income stream.”
“won't this bloodline be severed?”
“for teaching me that money means nothing.”
“And we've run out of cash. The money we have left isn't enough to fix it.”