那是他们自找的
“They brought it upon themselves.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
辛姑娘
“Miss Xin.”
那是他们自找的
“They brought it upon themselves.”
“You once told me, Master,”
“They made their bed, now let them lie in it; they get no pity from me.”
Deeply ingrained in Chinese thought is the belief that bad outcomes stemming from one's own wrongful actions deserve neither sympathy nor external rescue.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
brought upon oneself / asking for it
A biting colloquial idiom used to dismiss someone's suffering as entirely their own fault.
Affirms a strong assertion and nominalizes the fault as an established fact.