当初我就不该一时心软收留他
“I wouldn't have kindly taken him in at first.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
早知如此
“If I had known this,”
当初我 就不该 一时心软 收留他
“I wouldn't have kindly taken him in at first.”
听掌柜的意思 这胡德全不是什么好人
“It sounds like Hu Dequan wasn't much of a nice guy, was he?”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Chinese cultural narratives frequently warn against impulsive pity ('xinruan') toward untrustworthy characters, echoing the fable of the farmer and the snake.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
a momentary lapse into soft-heartedness
Commonly used to describe an impulsive act of sympathy that one later comes to regret.
to take in; to shelter
A formal and spoken verb meaning to provide refuge or lodging to someone in hardship.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I shouldn't have been so soft-hearted.”
“To think I used to pity him.”
“- I shouldn't have changed my mind - Si Feng! and brought a reckless fool like you along.”