就不怕她真杀了你？
“Weren't you afraid she'd actually kill you?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
这又是何苦？
“Is all this really necessary?”
就不怕 她真 杀了你 ？
“Weren't you afraid she'd actually kill you?”
杀我？
“Kill me?”
“You are courting death, snap out of this foolish gamble!”
Chinese speakers often challenge someone's reckless actions by asking rhetorical negative questions to provoke immediate reflection on the consequences.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
aren't you even afraid of; don't you dread
A rhetorical device used in spoken Chinese to highlight someone's recklessness or incomprehensible lack of fear.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Aren't you afraid I'll kill you?”
“You're afraid I'll kill her.”
“Don't you fear that I might kill you too?”
“I was worried something might happen,”
“I was afraid she'd kill me when she woke up.”
“He won't have the heart to kill her.”