久病床前 别说是无孝子了
“They say there are no filial sons at the bedside of the long-term sick.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“has wiped out our savings and left us deep in debt.”
久病床前 别说是 无孝子 了
“They say there are no filial sons at the bedside of the long-term sick.”
你说这两个孩子
“Look at these two kids.”
“You cannot blame the kids; prolonged illness destroys even the deepest filial devotion.”
While filial piety is a pillar of Chinese culture, traditional wisdom acknowledges that long-term medical debt and caretaking drain family devotion, making burn-out tragically predictable.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
Prolonged illness leaves no filial child by the bedside.
A well-known proverb used to lament that enduring hardship exhausts family love and duty.
let alone; not to mention
Used to introduce an extreme case that would ordinarily be true, making the current reality even more stark.
Marks the completed conditional thought, trailing off with resignation.
