总不能让我跟着你去跑江湖吧
“You can't expect me to drift around with you.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你现在连个宅子都没有 以后 你让我跟你去住哪啊
“You don't even have a house right now. In the future, where will I live with you?”
总不能 让我 跟着你 去 跑江湖 吧
“You can't expect me to drift around with you.”
还有 你想让我当你的妾
“Also, if you want me to be your concubine,”
“I deserve stability and a home, not an unpredictable vagrant life with you.”
In traditional and contemporary Chinese culture, providing a stable dwelling (a home) is considered a fundamental prerequisite for a man seeking marriage.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
surely cannot / it is unreasonable to expect
Used at the beginning of a clause to assert that an outcome or expectation is entirely absurd or unacceptable.
to wander from place to place to make a living; to lead an itinerant life
A vivid historical idiom used metaphorically in modern contexts to describe living an unstable, transient, hustle-driven lifestyle.
Softens the rhetorical question while implicitly expecting the listener to agree with the obvious absurdity of the premise.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“people like us can't really find out.”
“I still have great ambitions to roam the martial world.”
“I'll take you with me.”
“Besides, I've even made us a cool partnership name.”
“that even though you've left the literary world,”
“You've roamed the world for so long and lived among the common folk.”