就要把全村的人都给杀光了
“he'd kill every single one of them.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
若是不交出星儿
“if they didn't hand over Xing,”
就要 把 全村 的人 都 给 杀光 了
“he'd kill every single one of them.”
他当场就把王大叔给杀了
“He killed Uncle Wang right then and there.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Threatening collective destruction of an entire community illustrates extreme ruthlessness and forces protagonists into agonizing moral dilemmas regarding individual sacrifice versus communal survival.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
slaughter completely / kill everyone
A verb-resultative compound where 光 indicates total completion or elimination.
all the people in the village
A noun phrase commonly used to describe an entire rural community.
Marks the imminent change of state and completion of the threatened catastrophe.
