我把另外一只胳膊 我也卸下来给他
“I'd break my other arm and give it to him.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“See? Even I can't pronounce it. If he could invent that thing,”
我把另外一只 胳膊 我也 卸下来 给他
“I'd break my other arm and give it to him.”
“Even if what he said was true, there's also nothing we could do about him.”
“There is no way in hell he made this up.”
Swearing by self-mutilation or drastic consequences is an emphatic colloquial device to convey absolute certainty and dismiss skepticism.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
dismantle / take off
Literally used for machinery or parts, here used colloquially and graphically referring to a limb.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Rip his arm off!”
“Your right-hand men have already been taken out by him.”
“I'll break his legs. As if I'd need you to hit him.”
“You deserve it if they cut off your arms and legs.”
“Okay. Let me check your arms. Relax. Relax.”
“to snap their heads off.”