多灾多病 不能尽其天年
“plagued by illness. He may not live long.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
身体孱弱
“but frail in body,”
多灾多病 不能 尽其天年
“plagued by illness. He may not live long.”
以后的路 还是要他自己走
“The road ahead is his to walk.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Traditional Chinese culture places deep value on 'tiannian' (heaven-ordained lifespan); dying prematurely of illness is considered one of life's deepest tragedies.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
plagued by constant misfortune and illnesses
A formal descriptive idiom used to recount someone's prolonged suffering and chronic ailments.
to live out one's allotted lifespan; to die of old age
A traditional, dignified phrase expressing the concept of completing a natural human life cycle.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“will be a tough one for Fan Yun.”
“In this year of disaster,”
“Such a bringer of disaster cannot stay!”
“the weather has been erratic this year.”
“Predicting an unforeseen disaster”
“Bad people live long lives.”