孩子马上要出生 连个房子都没有
“The baby's coming, and they don't even have a place.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
为什么婚礼他爸不用出钱？
“Why didn't his family pay for the wedding?”
孩子 马上 要 出生 连个 房子 都没有
“The baby's coming, and they don't even have a place.”
他是要住哪里？
“Where are they going to live?”
“This situation is totally unacceptable; how can someone start a family with zero financial stability?”
In contemporary Chinese society, owning a home is considered an essential prerequisite for marriage and raising a child, and failing to provide one is viewed as severe family negligence.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
about to; on the verge of
A high-frequency pattern indicating that an event will happen in the very immediate future.
not even have...
Used to emphasize an extreme lack of basic necessities or failure to meet the bare minimum standard.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“the baby will live in a new house upon birth.”
“The baby isn't even born yet,”
“My child is about to be born.”
“How did she know it was a boy”
“You still have a kid at home, so pay attention to it.”
“My wife and child are living in the city now.”