让他隐忍百年的使命付诸东流
“and ruined the mission to which he'd devoted a century.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你毁掉了龙神之力
“You destroyed the Dragon Deity's Power”
让他隐忍百年的使命 付诸东流
“and ruined the mission to which he'd devoted a century.”
而他又亲眼目睹你身灵俱散
“And then he watched your body and spirit vanish.”
“You utterly ruined everything he spent an entire century building.”
In Chinese culture, 'yinren' (bearing hardship silently for an overarching duty) is regarded as a supreme virtue, making the destruction of such effort an unforgivable tragedy.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
wasted down the drain / gone to waste
A high-register four-character idiom (chengyu) describing all past efforts and hard work ending in complete futility.
enduring in silence for a hundred years
A literary expression used to describe prolonged patience and suppression of feelings for an ultimate goal.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“...how could he hide for so long?”
“why have you been hiding under a false name all these years?”
“a low-profile life for her? Why should I?”
“But it won't last long.”
“after years of hiding and avoiding detection,”
“has already wasted sixty-one years.”