前后加起来 我欠你两条命 这债不还清
“All in all, I owe you two lives. If I don't repay you, this unsettles me,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“You saved my life once before, then I almost got you killed.”
前后加 起来 我 欠你两条命 这 债不还清
“All in all, I owe you two lives. If I don't repay you, this unsettles me,”
“If I don't repay you, this unsettles me, and we can't be even.”
“You cannot simply brush me off; my personal code forces me to stay by your side until I repay you.”
In Chinese moral codes, an unsettled favor is viewed as an unbearable psychic burden that must be paid back to restore spiritual autonomy.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
taking everything together / all in all
Useful for tallying up sequential events, debts, or time periods.
to pay off completely
Typically used for monetary debts, but figuratively applied here to debts of gratitude and lives.