咱没权利决定一个娃的命运
“We can't decide a child's fate.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
说你真实想法
“Tell me what you really think.”
咱 没权利 决定一个娃的命运
“We can't decide a child's fate.”
没让你决定啊
“I'm not asking you to decide.”
“Do not pin this huge decision on me; I refuse to be blamed if it goes wrong.”
Using '咱' (zan) groups both conversational partners together to diffuse personal accountability and appeal to a collective ethical constraint.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
decide someone's fate
A weighty collocated phrase used when discussing life-altering decisions such as adoption, schooling, or career paths.
have no right / not qualified to
Used idiomatically in spoken Chinese to express either legal restriction or moral inadequacy to make a call.