他肯定要把我给掐死
“he would've strangled me to death.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
如果我要不反抗
“If I hadn't fought back,”
他 肯定要 把 我 给 掐死
“he would've strangled me to death.”
去 去
“Go on, go!”
“I had no choice but to fight back, otherwise I would be dead.”
In legal and interpersonal disputes in China, individuals strongly emphasize extreme life-threatening circumstances to establish a moral and legal claim of justified self-defense.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
definitely would / bound to
Used to express strong certainty about a hypothetical or impending outcome.
strangle or choke to death
A vivid resultative verb compound combining the action of squeezing with the fatal result.