就不会有那么多悲剧发生了
“fewer tragedies would happen,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我要是再努力一些
“I always think if I work harder,”
就不会有 那么多 悲剧发生了
“fewer tragedies would happen,”
“and the world might become a better place.”
“I blame myself entirely for failing to prevent these disasters.”
In Chinese moral philosophy, conscientious individuals often internalize systemic failures as personal moral shortcomings, expressing profound guilt over tragedies beyond their control.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
there would not have been
Connects with a prior counterfactual conditional clause ('要是...') to describe hypothetical non-occurrence.
tragedy strikes / tragedy occurs
A common collocation used when discussing catastrophic or heartbreaking real-world events.
Marks the hypothetical resulting change of state in the counterfactual condition.
