你是救人呢还是害人呢
“Are you trying to save him or kill him?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“You poured the whole pack of medicine in?”
你是 救人 呢还是害人呢
“Are you trying to save him or kill him?”
“Your reckless mistake could get someone killed!”
Chinese pragmatics strictly penalizes well-intentioned incompetence that results in harm, often condemned with rhetorical contrasts between saving and killing.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to save someone's life
Commonly contrasted with 害人 to emphasize irresponsible actions that lead to disaster.
to bring harm or disaster upon someone
Used both literally for physical harm and figuratively for causing someone serious trouble.
Balances the alternative question structure (是...呢还是...呢) and emphasizes the speaker's baffled interrogation.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“How could you be wrong for saving someone?”
“That's because to me, saving lives is an instinct.”
“should I see it through to the end?”
“Did that stop him from being a hero?”
“Whether he is a victim or the killer,”
“you do good or bad,”