一只脚都踏上黄泉路了 还问我要做什么
“One foot's already in the underworld, and you're still asking what I'll do?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
县主 你…你要做什么？
“Your Ladyship, what… what are you trying to do?”
一只脚都踏上黄泉路了 还 问我 要做什么
“One foot's already in the underworld, and you're still asking what I'll do?”
真是费劲
“What a hassle.”
“You are a dead person walking; isn't it obvious I'm here to finish you off?”
In traditional Chinese mythology, the Yellow Springs is the realm of the dead. 'Walking the Yellow Springs Road' is a culturally ingrained idiom for dying.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to already have one foot stepped onto (the verge of disaster or death)
Similar to the English 'one foot in the grave', used to describe someone on the immediate brink of death or ruin.
the road to the underworld; the path of death
A literary and dramatic term for death, widely understood in everyday Chinese and heavily used in period dramas.
Emphasizes that the state of being on the brink of death has already been reached.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“to join me on the road to the afterlife.”
“I'll make you die in the dark.”
“going through hell is worth it.”
“If you wish to join him,”
“If you wish to join him in the afterlife,”
“followed my brother to death.”