对他来说也是雪上加霜
“will still make things worse for him.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
抓不到柯一雄 抓住他几个手下
“Even if we can't catch Ke Yixiong, catching a few of his men”
对 他 来说 也是 雪上加霜
“will still make things worse for him.”
珍珠
“Zhenzhu.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Using vivid idioms like '雪上加霜' (frost upon snow) is standard even in colloquial Chinese to succinctly characterize escalating misfortune.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
one disaster after another; making a bad situation worse
A very standard four-character idiom (chengyu) used to describe compounded hardships.
as far as he is concerned; for him
A common transition frame used to shift analysis to a specific person's perspective.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“You'd better not give him another hard time.”
“We shouldn't make it worse emotionally.”
“You were dragged into this.”
“And what fate did he meet in the end?”
“he was finally broken.”
“he can't exactly refuse, can he? His hands were completely tied!”