给我妈治病把钱都花没了
“I spent it all treating my mom.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
谁也不知道
“No one knows.”
给我 妈治病 把 钱 都 花没了
“I spent it all treating my mom.”
我现在还得养我
“Now I still have to support my...”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Adult children in China bear strong moral and legal duties to fund elderly parents' healthcare, even at severe personal financial expense.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to treat someone's illness / pay for someone's medical treatment
Standard pattern to express providing medical care or paying for treatment for a family member.
spent completely / spent until nothing is left
A resultative complement structure indicating that money has been entirely depleted.
Marks the completed transition into a state of total financial depletion.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“The medicine costs a fortune. The Sun family can't afford it.”
“The money spent on Tiantian at the hospital last time.”