他连你们母子性命都不顾
“he didn't even care about the lives of you and your son.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
舅母
“Aunt,”
他连你们母子性命都 不顾
“he didn't even care about the lives of you and your son.”
“Wake up, he abandoned you, so stop throwing your dignity away to save him.”
Traditional Chinese kinship values demand mutual loyalty, making abandonment of one's own wife and child an egregious moral failure.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
not even caring about / completely disregarding
A useful construction to emphasize extreme negligence or lack of empathy toward someone or something vital.
lives of mother and child
A set phrasing often used in dramatic or classical contexts to highlight the vulnerability of a mother and her offspring.