就是要跟你做一个彻底的了断
“to make a clean break with you.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我今天到这来
“I came here today”
就是要 跟你 做 一个 彻底的了断
“to make a clean break with you.”
我说完了
“I am done speaking.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Chinese interpersonal relations, complicated emotional or financial entanglements often linger; demanding a 'liaoduan' indicates a desire to eliminate all ambiguity and cut mutual obligations definitively.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
precisely to / simply want to
Emphatically highlights the sole objective or unyielding determination behind an action.
make a clean break / end things once and for all
A dramatic and formal idiom used when permanently ending a romantic relationship, dispute, or complicated entanglement.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“to settle things with you once and for all.”
“to cut ties with me for good.”
“You were the one who cut ties.”
“I intended to make a clean break with you.”
“If I really wanted to destroy it, to take this to the extreme, I could have just burned it, but I didn't.”