他不人不鬼地 一步步走到南京
“He walked to Nanjing like a ghost, step by step,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“That soldier crawled out from a pile of corpses.”
他 不人不鬼 地 一步步走 到南京
“He walked to Nanjing like a ghost, step by step,”
“just to hand Yunkui's sword to me personally.”
“You have no idea what horrors he endured just to bring this relic back.”
Carrying out a fallen brother-in-arms' dying wish at all costs represents supreme loyalty and traditional Chinese martial honor.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
neither human nor ghost; in a wretched and haggard state
A vivid four-character idiom describing someone reduced to an unrecognizable, emaciated, or miserable physical condition.
step by step; slowly and arduously
Used to convey a painstaking, exhausting physical progression over great distance or difficulty.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Me—neither one thing nor another— a big shot?”
“all messed up and miserable!”
“She made me live like a walking corpse for fifteen years.”
“You monster—neither human nor ghost—”
“it's been a living hell for me.”
“Didn't he leave? It's not a ghost. It's him.”