作死的蹄子 你要吓死我们吗
“You wench! Are you trying to scare us to death?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我不去 这边
“I'm not going. This way.”
作死 的蹄子 你要 吓死我 们吗
“You wench! Are you trying to scare us to death?”
大娘子 我不知道
“My lady, I have no idea.”
“You nearly gave me a heart attack with your reckless actions!”
In traditional Chinese households, superiors or elders often use hyperbolic curses regarding death when panicked, masking their fright with anger.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to ask for trouble / to court death
Very common in modern slang as well, used when someone does something reckless or foolish.
to scare to death
Used as a hyperbolic complement to express extreme fright in daily conversation.
Forms a rhetorical question here to emphasize the speaker's shock and accusation rather than seeking an answer.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Are you crazy? Leave it! Let's go!”
“if we die, we die together.'”
“I'll die! Those were greedy fools”
“Stomp you to death! Stomp you to death! I'll stomp you to death!”
“Kill you!”
“killed by bandits. I was the only one who luckily escaped.”