却又让你留有一口气在
“Yet he would keep us alive”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
挑出你的筋脉
“and pull out our tendons.”
却又让你留有一口气在
“Yet he would keep us alive”
供他驱使
“so as to make us do his bidding”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In classic Chinese martial arts and fantasy narratives, keeping an enemy alive under extreme agony is considered the ultimate form of vengeful retribution.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to leave barely breathing; to keep someone on the verge of death
A vivid dramatic expression used to describe someone barely clinging to life.
Functions as an aspect marker/complement indicating the persistence of a continuing state.