她有理会过我半点儿吗 她有找人打听过穆家吗
“Did she pay any attention to me? Did she ask anyone about the Mu family?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我跪在地上求她
“I begged her on my knees.”
她有 理会 过我半点儿吗 她有找人 打听 过穆家吗
“Did she pay any attention to me? Did she ask anyone about the Mu family?”
根本没有
“Not at all.”
“She never cared about my fate for even a second; she just threw me away.”
Before finalizing a marriage, families were culturally expected to thoroughly vet the prospective spouse's family; failure to do so demonstrated callous disregard.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to pay attention to / to take notice of
Frequently negated to emphasize deliberate neglect or indifference towards someone's plight.
to inquire about / to check into
Standard conversational verb for casually asking around or investigating someone's background.
Marks a rhetorical question that carries a forceful negative assertion.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Ms. Hu, you know this place so well. Sounds like you come here often.”
“What status does she think her family holds? And what does she take the Gu family for?”