我们作了啥孽了
“What have we done wrong?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
还会夭折
“will die young.”
我们作了啥孽了
“What have we done wrong?”
娃咋生下来就是这
“Why does the child suffer this?”
“What did we do to deserve this cruel tragedy?”
Deeply influenced by Buddhist and folk notions of karma, Chinese speakers often frame inexplicable personal tragedies as retribution for unseen ancestral or past-life wrongdoings.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to commit a sin; to bring about karmic retribution
Used in dramatic laments or self-pitying rhetorical questions to bemoan extreme, undeserved misfortune.
what sin did (we) commit
A common colloquial and dialect-friendly rhetorical exclamation expressing utter helplessness in the face of disaster.
Marks the completion of hypothetical past misdeeds that led to the current tragic state.
