丁有财就给了他儿子一点钱 就撒手不管了
“Others say he just gave him some money and abandoned him.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
也有人说
“Others say he just gave him some money and abandoned him.”
丁有财就给了他 儿子 一点钱 就 撒手不管了
“Others say he just gave him some money and abandoned him.”
不过后来我倒是见过他一回
“But I did see him once later.”
“He did the bare minimum and totally abandoned his responsibilities.”
Chinese cultural expectations place profound moral duty on parents to raise and support their children; washing one's hands of one's offspring invites sharp social condemnation.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to wash one's hands of / to completely walk away from a responsibility
A vivid colloquial idiom describing someone abandoning their duties or refusing to intervene further.
Indicates completion of the action and marks a permanent change of state into total abandonment.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“That little girl is quite rich.”
“She is not someone who cares about money. She just likes managing money, people, and affairs.”
“I want to give you some paper money.”
“That's enough even for my grandson.”
“I got a rich dad and I had been away for several years.”
“I'm the one who's kept this family poor, okay?”