尧哥儿也没个兄弟姊妹
“Yao doesn't have any siblings.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“isn't she extremely blessed? I was thinking,”
尧 哥儿 也 没个 兄弟姊妹
“Yao doesn't have any siblings.”
你是说给我听呢 母亲您误会了 儿媳不是这个意思
“Did you say that for my benefit? Mother, you misunderstood. That's not what I meant.”
“You ought to have another child so our grandson isn't left all alone.”
In traditional families, senior members frequently used indirect remarks about an only child's loneliness to exert subtle pressure on wives to bear more children.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
brothers and sisters; siblings
A traditional compound noun encompassing both male and female siblings.
doesn't even have a single...
Colloquial framing used to emphasize absence or lack of an expected relationship or item.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I only have Yao as my son.”
“Yao has just started at Cunshan Academy. I wonder how he's doing.”
“It left Yao and me at a loss for words.”