不能让这儿继续再死人了
“to prevent more deaths from happening here.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“The Archives instructed us to figure out what this thing really is”
不能 让这儿 继续 再死人了
“to prevent more deaths from happening here.”
在听我说话吗
“Are you listening to me?”
“Forget the mission order, people are dying and we must stop this now.”
In Chinese teamwork and professional culture, an appeal to human life ('人命关天') acts as an unassailable justification to pause or modify official directives.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
people die / casualties occur
Commonly used impersonally in spoken Chinese as a verb-object phrase meaning fatal incidents happening.
cannot allow / cannot let...
A strong modal construction used to assert ethical or operational boundaries.
Indicates reaching an unacceptable cumulative limit where further continuation cannot be tolerated.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“they might as well make his body more useful.”
“I can't let him near this body again.”
“We can't tolerate it any longer.”
“I don't want to see anyone else die in front of me.”