命都没了还颜面
“You're nearly dead, and you still talk about dignity?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“No matter what, I'll get it to the capital and present it before my father.”
命都没了 还 颜面
“You're nearly dead, and you still talk about dignity?”
我饿了 又饿了 我这是招了个饕餮呀
“I'm hungry. Hungry again? I've picked up a glutton.”
“Forget your foolish pride; staying alive is the only thing that actually matters right now.”
Traditional honor codes often demand saving face at all costs, but pragmatic survival rhetoric forcefully pushes back against this foolish stubbornness.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
even life is gone; if you are dead
Common spoken phrase emphasizing that all other concerns are meaningless without survival.
how can one still talk about...; still care about...
Used rhetorically to dismiss a secondary concern when facing an existential crisis.