那是谁把他逼到这条路上的 咱是不是得查清楚
“So who pushed him down this path? Don't we need to find that out?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
就是个普普通通的工人
“he was just an ordinary worker.”
那是 谁把他 逼到这条路上 的 咱 是不是 得 查清楚
“So who pushed him down this path? Don't we need to find that out?”
“Only then can we give your aunt an explanation.”
“Someone is responsible for driving him to this, and we cannot simply let it slide.”
In Chinese family dynamics, when an injustice or tragedy occurs, close kin feel an intense moral obligation to uncover the truth to give relatives an acceptable closure or accountability (交代).
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
driven to this extreme path / desperate situation
Used idiomatically to describe someone being forced into a tragic or irreversible decision by external circumstances.
to investigate thoroughly; to find out clearly
A common resultative verb compound expressing the goal of discovering the unvarnished truth.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I have no idea how he deals with all the pork and offal.”
“I'm looking for the person who actually drove Jason to a dead end.”
“Everyone knows he's here for you.”