还有努力的一切付诸东流吗
“and everything we've worked for slip away?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
难道您就眼睁睁地看着 咱们的爵位
“are you just going to watch as our titles”
还有 努力的一切 付诸东流 吗
“and everything we've worked for slip away?”
“While there's still time, let's immediately send a message to the Northern Army”
“We cannot just sit here and lose everything we worked so hard to build.”
In imperial China, aristocratic ranks and titles required immense political maneuvering to secure, making their forfeiture a catastrophic loss for the entire family line.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to be completely wasted; go down the drain
A literary four-character idiom used to describe wasted time, labor, money, or emotional effort.
Marks a rhetorical question that reinforces the speaker's implied negative stance.