小事都听她的也就算了
“I was fine with her taking control over trivial matters.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
爸 她以前就是那样的 她心眼不坏 都是一些小事
“Dad, she's been like that all her life. But she's not a bad person. These are all trivial matters.”
小事 都 听她的 也就算了
“I was fine with her taking control over trivial matters.”
可是你看 买房子这么大的事 她也要搞一言堂
“But you see, she even wanted to make a sole decision on such a big thing as buying a house.”
“I can overlook trivial things, but this does not give her the right to control major life decisions.”
In Chinese domestic conflicts, accommodating a partner's quirks in trivial daily matters is considered standard tolerance, but authoritarian control over significant family assets like real estate often triggers severe pushback.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
listen to her / defer to her
Used to express deferring to someone else's opinion or obeying their wishes.
might as well let it go / would be fine as a compromise
A spoken marker used to concede a minor point before presenting an unacceptable major issue.
Functions in the fixed construction '也就算了' to indicate resigned acceptance or conditional tolerance.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I didn't take it seriously.”
“that if something happens, I'll take care of her, that's enough.”
“She'd never listen to me.”
“Since she arranged it, just go along with her.”
“I can only tell her to let nature take its course,”
“We can't let her efforts go to waste.”