娶妻生子 是再正常不过的事情
“Starting a family is the most natural thing for him.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
段胥是凡人
“Duan Xu is a mortal.”
娶妻 生子 是 再正常不过 的事情
“Starting a family is the most natural thing for him.”
我有什么好难过的
“Why should I feel sad?”
“I know it makes sense, but it still breaks my heart.”
Getting married and having children represents the baseline societal expectation in Chinese culture, often invoked to normalize life paths.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to take a wife and have children
A standard set phrase representing the conventional stages of adult life for a man in traditional society.
could not be more normal; completely standard
A common rhetorical pattern '再...不过' meaning 'nothing could be more...'.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“A wife, of course.”
“and have children early.”
“Marrying her”
“One must marry a virtuous wife.”
“did you take a wife or a concubine?”
“then said he wanted to marry me, have kids,”