我刚混得有点人样
“I was just starting to make something of myself.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我 我感觉我
“I-I feel like”
我刚 混得有点人样
“I was just starting to make something of myself.”
“I could finally hold my head up in front of Yan.”
“I worked so hard to climb out of rock bottom; please don't let everything fall apart now.”
The phrase 'ren yang' captures a deeply rooted cultural aspiration among grassroots Chinese people to hold basic societal respectability, gainful employment, and human decency.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
looking decent; living like a respectable human being
A raw, highly emotional idiom indicating rising from a disreputable, destitute, or pathetic condition to basic respectability.
just managed to achieve a certain level of living
Uses the versatile verb 混 (to get by / scrape along) to modestly depict making progress in life.
