我早就客死他乡
“died in a foreign state with my body in the wilderness now.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
怕是现在
“I would've”
我早就 客死他乡
“died in a foreign state with my body in the wilderness now.”
横尸荒野了
“died in a foreign state with my body in the wilderness now.”
“I owe you my life; without you, I would already be dead.”
In traditional Chinese culture, dying away from one's homeland (客死他乡) without proper family burial rites was considered one of the most tragic and unfilial fates possible.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to die away from home in a foreign or strange land
A formal idiom used to describe the tragic misfortune of passing away far from one's ancestral home.
long ago; already
Placed before verbs to indicate that an action or hypothetical result would have occurred much earlier.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I would have died in the streets long ago.”
“Xu Zhongyi is dead.”
“would have already been plunged into misery and suffering.”
“They have long since disregarded life and death.”
“He was annihilated long ago.”
“I'd have died countless times by now.”