回去就前功尽弃咧
“All your efforts will be for nothing.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我想回家 娃 咱不能回呀
“I want to go home. You can't go back now.”
回去 就 前功尽弃 咧
“All your efforts will be for nothing.”
那么多年的苦
“All those years of suffering”
“You have suffered so much already; quitting now ruins your future.”
Chinese culture emphasizes persevering through hardship ('eating bitterness') as a prerequisite for success, making quitting halfway deeply lamented.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
all previous efforts wasted; completely undone
A common four-character idiom used when warning someone that quitting will invalidate past labor.
A dialectal final particle emphasizing the inevitable and grave outcome of an action.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“or it'll all be for nothing.”
“if we pull out now, it'll all be for nothing.”
“I will be busted.”