他们全都死有余辜
“they all deserve to die for what they did.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
阿扬说
“Zhengyang said”
他们全 都 死有余辜
“they all deserve to die for what they did.”
后来呢
“What happened then?”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Chinese moral culture strongly endorses the idea that extreme villainy warrants extreme karmic or physical punishment, expressed decisively with classical idioms like this.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
even death would not expiate all crimes; deserved to die
A strong set phrase (chengyu) used to condemn evil people whose deaths are entirely justified.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“That man deserved to die.”
“a heinous death row prisoner to marry”
“deserve to die for my crimes.”
“She deserved to die.”