之前吃过的亏 还不够吗
“Haven't you learned enough from the setbacks you've had?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“You need to know your own limits.”
之前吃过的亏 还不够吗
“Haven't you learned enough from the setbacks you've had?”
“Even if you could pick any job now, what can you actually do?”
“Stop being delusional and learn from your past failures.”
Chinese cultural wisdom strongly values knowing one's exact worth (几斤几两) and learning from setbacks (吃亏) rather than harboring unrealistic ambitions.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
suffer losses / get the short end of the stick
Essential idiom denoting experiencing hardship, deceit, or setback through naivety.
is it still not enough?
A rhetorical question pattern used to forcefully urge someone to halt an unproductive or foolish behavior.
Turns the clause into a sharp rhetorical question, intensifying the reprimand.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“at your hands,”
“We can't take the loss for nothing.”
“must have lost out somewhere else.”
“I'm ready to pay my dues.”
“Don't let it bite you, too.”
“and I didn't lose a single cent.”