你爹都已经埋了 你哭他做什么
“Your father is already buried. Why are you crying for him?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我不识字
“I can't read.”
你爹都已经埋了 你 哭他做什么
“Your father is already buried. Why are you crying for him?”
该是他哭你才是
“He should be the one crying for you.”
“Stop crying over the dead, worry about your own neck instead.”
Filial piety mandates extensive mourning for parents, but in times of dire survival, blunt realists dismiss such rituals as luxurious futility.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
what is the point of crying for him
A rhetorical construction '[verb] + [object] + 做什么' expressing that an action is futile or unwarranted.
already
Highlights that an event is in the past and cannot be undone, often used to urge acceptance.
Marks the completed change of state (the burial is already finished and unchangeable).