但是咱先把命保住行不行啊？
“But surviving comes first, alright?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“I know you are longing to see Zhao.”
但是 咱 先把命保住 行不行啊 ？
“But surviving comes first, alright?”
楚都动荡了 但是你放心
“The Capital is in turmoil, but rest assured.”
“Get a grip! You cannot be with her if you end up dead.”
In Chinese storytelling and vernacular, companions often play the grounded realist role, using blunt pragmatic logic to counter a hero's obsessive romance.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
keep one's life / stay alive
A colloquial ba-construction phrase used when survival is at immediate risk.
can we? / is that alright with you?
Used at the end of a plea or demand to emphasize impatience and exasperation while seeking agreement.
Softens the rhetorical question while adding an emotive overtone of urgent pleading and exasperation.
