以为吃了就会死
“and thought it would kill me.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“I heard that it was a deadly mission”
以为 吃了就 会死
“and thought it would kill me.”
就抢下来了
“That's why I took it.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
This reflects the dramatic trope of risking personal safety on an erroneous instinct solely to protect someone from perceived lethal harm.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to assume erroneously / to mistakenly think
Commonly used in spoken Chinese to introduce a mistaken belief or misunderstanding that motivated past behavior.
then will / would result in
A pattern used to describe a direct cause-and-effect prediction or expected consequence.