人就使劲想要把它找补上
“people try hard to fix it.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
可家要是缺了一块
“But if it's missing a piece,”
人就 使劲 想要 把它 找补 上
“people try hard to fix it.”
我以前也没有想过要当警察
“I never thought I'd become a cop.”
“My entire career drive stems from trying to mend the trauma of a broken home.”
Chinese culture places profound value on family wholeness; experiencing a fractured home often creates an intense lifelong drive to compensate for the emotional lack.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
exerting all one's strength; desperately
Commonly used before verbs to describe doing something with intense physical or mental effort.
to make up for; to compensate for a deficiency
A highly authentic colloquial Northern Chinese term for trying to patch up an emotional or material void.