吃了多少苦 受过多少累
“She suffered and toiled.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
晓兰她一个农村丫头 一步步走到今天 她不容易
“as a village girl, it's not easy that Xiaolan made it here step by step.”
吃了多少苦 受过多少累
“She suffered and toiled.”
还要被像你这样的 心术不正 心胸狭窄的人
“Yet she has to be sabotaged by someone like you— a malicious and narrow-minded man”
“You have no right to belittle her when you know nothing of the hell she had to survive to get here.”
In Chinese culture, having 'eaten bitterness' (吃苦) earns an individual profound moral capital and respect, making attacks on their character seem especially cruel and unjustified.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to endure hardships; bear bitterness
A fundamental cultural collocation referring to bearing physical, financial, or emotional toil without giving up.
to put up with exhausting labor; suffer fatigue
Commonly paired with '吃苦' to emphasize physical struggle and persistent toil.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“enduring all the pain”
“It was clear he had suffered terribly and gone through great hardships.”
“You've endured a lot of hardship to get to where you are today.”
“Our son is suffering physically and frustrated emotionally.”