这才把我从鬼门关拉了回来
“pulling me back from the brink of death.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
日夜看护
“and looked after me day and night,”
这才把我从 鬼门关 拉了 回来
“pulling me back from the brink of death.”
此事
“I have never heard”
“I literally owe my life to that care; without it, I would be dead.”
Guimenguan is the mythological entrance to the underworld in Chinese folklore; escaping it metaphorically means narrowly cheating death.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
only then; not until then
Emphasizes the heavy effort or elapsed condition required before the resulting outcome could be achieved.
pulled back from the gates of hell; saved from the brink of death
A colorful, dramatic idiomatic expression for surviving a life-threatening illness or injury.
Marks the completion of the life-saving action and the decisive change from mortal peril to survival.
