也不愿别人来伤害你
“than let others hurt you.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“You said you'd rather hurt others”
也不 愿别人来 伤害你
“than let others hurt you.”
“Then why didn't you hurt”
“You claimed to be completely self-protective and ruthless.”
The turn echoes the famous historical maxim of Cao Cao ('I would rather betray the world than let the world betray me'), repurposed here into modern interpersonal psychological defense.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
would rather... than...
A classic correlative paired structure expressing preference between two undesirable options.
to harm; to hurt
Applies to both physical injury and emotional wounding in interpersonal relationships.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I don't like people hurting me.”
“others would not have targeted him,”
“but we won't let anyone walk all over us!”