就算是去了阴曹地府
“If he ended up in hell,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我父亲也为他所累
“and my father got caught up in the wreckage.”
就算是 去了 阴曹地府
“If he ended up in hell,”
那也不算亏
“good riddance.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Chinese folk religion and Taoism, 'Yin Cao Di Fu' is the bureaucratic underworld where deceased souls are judged and processed before reincarnation.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
the underworld; Hades; the netherworld
A traditional mythological idiom referring to the realm of the dead, commonly used to denote dying.
even if; even granting that
Use this conjunction to introduce a hypothetical concession or extreme condition.
Marks the completion of the hypothetical transition into the netherworld.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I'll make it up to them in the underworld”
“I imagine the underworld”
“Am I in the underworld?”
“Explain it in hell!”
“Here or in the Underworld, I'll make you pay.”
“Send them to the underworld to serve as slaves.”