自己养孩子不算 还帮邻居们养孩子
“Not only do you raise your own child, you also help your neighbor with their children.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Your wife passed away 20 years ago, and you haven't married again.”
自己养 孩子不算 还 帮邻居们养孩子
“Not only do you raise your own child, you also help your neighbor with their children.”
人家给我生活费 我就是给孩子们做个饭
“They pay me living costs, and I just cook for the children.”
“You have sacrificed far too much for others without thinking of yourself.”
In traditional Chinese communities, close neighbors often functioned like extended family, sharing meals and child-rearing responsibilities.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
not only... but also / let alone... even
A spoken pattern used to stack an even more surprising or extreme action onto an existing one.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“It's bothering to raise children!”
“How am I supposed to face them as neighbors now?”
“who love him like their own,”
“It's no different from raising a child.”
“on raising two of the children herself,”
“that we can raise a healthy and normal child together.”