老太太含辛茹苦地 养育继子女长大
“That poor lady sacrificed everything to raise those stepchildren.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
对
“Exactly.”
老太太 含辛茹苦 地 养育继子女长大
“That poor lady sacrificed everything to raise those stepchildren.”
他们用这种方式 强迫老太太放弃她的权利
“And now they're forcing her to sign away her rights.”
“She gave everything for them, making what they are doing to her utterly unconscionable.”
Chinese culture places immense moral value on the hardships parents endure raising offspring (含辛茹苦), making filial ingratitude (不孝) one of the gravest moral violations.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
endure all kinds of hardships and suffering
A formal four-character idiom almost exclusively used to describe the painstaking sacrifices made by parents raising their children.
stepchildren
A formal sociological/legal term referring collectively to stepsons and stepdaughters.
Functions as an adverbial marker connecting the descriptive idiom to the action verb.
