你可千万不能钻牛角尖
“You must not be too hard on yourself.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
刘嫂也能活得好好的 夫人 夫人 夫人
“Mrs. Liu would also be alive and well. Madam, madam, madam.”
你可 千万不能 钻牛角尖
“You must not be too hard on yourself.”
你想 我们要不来上海 我们都上了那美云号去武汉
“Think about it. If we hadn't come to Shanghai, we would all have boarded the Meiyun to Wuhan.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Chinese speakers often use 'don't drill into the bull's horn' to pull loved ones out of spirals of survivor guilt or irrational regret.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to get trapped in a dead end; to obsess over inconsequential or insoluble dilemmas
A very common idiom used when advising someone to stop overthinking or obsessing destructively.
must under no circumstances
Used to give strong negative warnings or urgent advice.
