岂不是要冻出病来
“She'll catch her death in there.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
这天儿也凉了 柴房那么冷
“It's getting chilly outside, and that woodshed is freezing.”
岂不是 要 冻出病来
“She'll catch her death in there.”
我的人出不去
“My people are under watch.”
“You have to do something or let them out, otherwise they are going to freeze to death.”
In traditional large estates, confining individuals to the woodshed (chafang) served as severe domestic punishment, exposing them to elemental hardship.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
wouldn't it be; wouldn't that mean
A formal rhetorical marker used to emphasize the obvious negative consequence of an action.
fall ill from the cold
A resultative structure indicating that severe exposure to cold leads to sickness.