都以为 你坚持不下来
“We all thought you wouldn't last.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
巡山本来都不带你
“We weren't going to take you on patrol.”
都以为 你 坚持不下来
“We all thought you wouldn't last.”
但你一直坚持着
“But you've kept at it”
“We counted you out from day one, but you proved all of us completely wrong.”
Praising someone's ability to '坚持' through physical hardship is one of the highest compliments in Chinese work ethics, reflecting resilience.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
unable to endure / unable to hold out until the end
Potential complement structure used to express inability to sustain physically or mentally taxing efforts.
everyone thought (mistakenly)
Used to introduce a prior assumption that ultimately turned out to be false.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I cannot keep going anymore.”
“I don't expect you to stick to this path.”
“I didn't expect her brand to collapse so soon.”
“Why can't I hold on?”
“But we still broke up in the end.”
“I really can't hold on anymore.”
“I really can't hold on anymore.”
“you could keep this up for so long.”