那我和欧阳还过过命
“Ouyang and I have saved each other's lives.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
十几年了
“for over a decade.”
那 我和欧阳还 过过命
“Ouyang and I have saved each other's lives.”
努力去赚钱
“♪Work hard and make money♪”
“Your history with them means nothing compared to what we've survived together.”
In Chinese brotherhood and relationship dynamics, surviving mortality together represents the highest echelon of interpersonal loyalty, trumping casual friendships.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
having faced life-and-death situations together / ride-or-die
Used idiomatically in spoken Chinese to describe an extraordinarily close, battle-tested bond.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“They are more important than my life.”
“She's even more important than my life.”
“- Godfather… - Get away! Give me my life back!”
“for mine.”
“What's more important than your life?”
“Now it's time you paid back that life.”