那男的连杀只鸡都不敢
“That man wouldn't even dare to kill a chicken.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“What could that couple have done?”
那男的连杀只鸡 都不敢
“That man wouldn't even dare to kill a chicken.”
里间是住人了啊
“The bedroom's in there?”
“He is way too cowardly to commit any serious crime.”
In Chinese culture, slaughtering domestic fowl like chickens is a routine rural chore, so being unable to do so is the benchmark of absolute meekness and timidity.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
even... (cannot/does not)
A classic emphatic structure used to highlight an extreme or basic example to prove a broader point.
too timid even to kill a chicken
A standard idiomatic description in Chinese to illustrate extreme cowardice or harmlessness.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Just showing you killing a chicken won't work.”
“You're worse than an animal!”
“Would I ever stoop to such petty tricks?”
“That's using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.”
“Don't use a sledgehammer to crack a nut.”
“cannot even bring himself to kill a beast.”