饶是神仙来了 也难逃
“no one can break free, whoever he is.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
一旦绑上以后
“Once tied,”
饶是 神仙来了 也难 逃
“no one can break free, whoever he is.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Chinese idiomatic speech frequently uses 'even gods/immortals cannot save/escape' (神仙也难...) as the ultimate hyperbolic standard of unavoidable peril.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
even if; even granted that
A literary spoken conjunction used to introduce an extreme hypothetical case, followed by a result that still holds.
cannot escape either; doomed all the same
A set pattern used to emphasize that no one, regardless of ability, can evade a particular fate or trap.
Marks the completed conditional action of the hypothetical arrival of the deities.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Look! See? The god is here!”
“Spare me! I… I don't know anything!”
“A deity is a deity— don't talk nonsense.”
“it's... It's still a fight among immortals.”
“The Guardian has come for me.”
“Spare me.”