一个女人 孤苦伶仃 怪可怜的
“A woman all alone, it's so pitiful.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
对 她前一阵 才从闸北逃出来
“Yes. She just escaped from Zhabei a while ago.”
一个女人 孤苦伶仃 怪可怜的
“A woman all alone, it's so pitiful.”
那您回来得确实有点突然
“Your return was indeed a bit sudden.”
“She had nobody else to turn to, so how could I just turn her away?”
Traditional Chinese morality places high value on sheltering solitary, defenseless women, framing hospitality as an unassailable act of benevolence (Cibei).
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
solitary and impoverished; helpless and alone
A vivid four-character idiom (chengyu) used to evoke deep compassion for an isolated person without family support.
quite; rather...
A northern colloquial pattern expressing an empathetic or subjective observation, similar to '挺……的'.
Completes the colloquial construction '怪……的' to emphasize the degree of pity felt.
