但受困于这方寸之间
“they're confined to this small space.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
美虽美矣
“Beautiful as they are,”
但受困于这 方寸之间
“they're confined to this small space.”
你说
“Tell me,”
“What good is beauty when I am essentially a prisoner here?”
In classical literature, women and officials in the palace are frequently depicted as caged birds living in magnificent yet suffocating confinement.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to be trapped in; constrained by
A formal passive structure used to describe physical confinement or psychological distress.
within a tiny space; in a cramped area
Metaphorical idiom used to describe a very small physical area, or poetically, the human heart.