挺不容易的 也不知道这几年过得怎么样
“It was tough for him. Wonder how he's been doing.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
他家里只剩姥姥姥爷了 父母都不在了
“And we knew he only had his grandparents left. His parents were gone.”
挺不容易的 也不知道 这几年 过得怎么样
“It was tough for him. Wonder how he's been doing.”
江越父母去世的事
“What do you know about his parents' deaths?”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Calling someone's life '不容易' is one of the highest forms of casual emotional validation in Chinese culture, acknowledging their endurance of unstated grief or hardship.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
it really hasn't been easy
A ubiquitous empathetic phrase in Chinese used to validate someone's struggle, hardship, or perseverance.
how one is doing / living
Standard conversational expression when asking or wondering about someone's general life circumstances.
Functions here to mark descriptive affirmation, reinforcing the speaker's emotional assessment of hardship.