那云旗看不下去了 心疼他们
“Yunqi couldn't bear it. He felt sorry for them,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
这租界不是一下子 涌进来几十万难民吗
“Didn't hundreds of thousands of refugees flood into the settlement?”
那云旗 看不下去了 心疼 他们
“Yunqi couldn't bear it. He felt sorry for them,”
把他们收容进来 也好给他们一些落脚的地方
“so he took them in, to give them a place to stay.”
“He did this out of pure kindness, so don't blame him.”
Appealing to a person's inability to witness suffering (buren) is a classical Confucian moral justification to excuse breaking rules or taking on burdensome responsibilities.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
cannot bear to watch; unable to stand by and watch
A common oral expression used when someone feels compelled to intervene because a situation is too distressing or unfair.
to feel pity for; to care deeply about
Used to describe an emotional ache caused by seeing someone else suffer, often motivating protective actions.
Marks a change of state, showing that his emotional threshold was reached and prompted action.