让你们走到这一步
“I let things go this far.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
尽早地拉住你们
“stopped you sooner.”
让你们 走到这一步
“I let things go this far.”
怪我
“It's my fault.”
“I should have stopped you before things got this out of hand; it's my fault.”
In Chinese moral culture, mentors or senior figures often feel a heavy moral obligation to prevent others from straying, blaming themselves when subordinates end up in trouble.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
reach this point / end up like this
A frequent idiomatic chunk describing a situation deteriorating to an undesirable, critical, or irreversible stage.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“We've already come this far.”
“Ending up like this,”
“it still comes to this.”
“- But here we are. - Aye, here we are.”
“how you got here step by step.”
“I know it's hard to take this step.”