攒了一辈子的家当
“We saved for a lifetime.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
攒了一辈子的家当
“We saved for a lifetime.”
“Everything we spent our whole lives working for is gone in an instant.”
Traditional Chinese families place immense value on thrifty saving across generations, making the sudden loss of such assets an existential tragedy.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
an entire lifetime
Commonly used before nouns or verbs to emphasize the immense duration and weight of a life's effort.
family belongings; all one's earthly possessions
A colloquial term referring to the physical or financial assets that make up a household.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“all the wealth I've built”
“and lost my entire fortune.”
“to acquire the estates of”
“in each of your lives.”
“and built up this family estate.”