那总不能饿死吧
“We can't just starve to death.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
那怎么办
“Then what should we do?”
那 总不能饿死 吧
“We can't just starve to death.”
人总得吃饭吧
“People have to eat.”
“We have to do something, even if it's risky, because doing nothing means dying.”
Reflects the foundational Chinese belief that survival and sustenance supersede almost all other social formalities or rules in times of crisis.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
surely cannot / it is out of the question that
Used to reject an unacceptable premise or outcome by appealing to common sense.
to starve to death
Can be used literally in situations of severe deprivation, or figuratively in daily life to mean extremely hungry.
Prompts agreement from the listener while softening the rhetorical question.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Not starving counts as a win.”
“put right at your lips, and you still starve?”
“then at the very least, it guarantees you won't starve.”
“I'm starving.”
“Common people can barely afford to eat,”
“we'll either be poisoned or starved to death on this floor.”