你总不能让它付之东流吧
“Surely you wouldn't want to see it destroyed.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“After all, Hengshun Salt Bureau was your life's work.”
你 总不能让 它付 之 东流 吧
“Surely you wouldn't want to see it destroyed.”
若你真的是水鬼
“If you truly are the water ghost,”
“Think about everything you sacrificed—you cannot just give up now.”
In Chinese culture, emphasizing that something is one's 'heart and blood' (painstaking effort) is a powerful rhetorical tool to invoke moral responsibility and perseverance.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to go down the drain; to come to naught
A literary idiom commonly used when referring to wasted efforts, investments, or hopes.
surely cannot; cannot reasonably
Used to appeal to reason or emotion when cautioning someone against an irrational course of action.
Softens the rhetorical pressure into a seeking of concurrence or common ground.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I can't let you do it.”
“just leave a stuck truck sitting there.”
“can't go on like this.”
“if we don't stop this now, it will be too late.”
“This can't be delayed any longer.”
“But this can't go on.”