儿子不想再重蹈覆辙
“I don't want to repeat the same mistakes.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“patience doesn't solve anything.”
儿子 不想再 重蹈覆辙
“I don't want to repeat the same mistakes.”
楚岺病重
“Chu Ling is badly ill.”
“Your way failed us miserably before, and I refuse to sit by and let it happen again.”
In Confucian ethics, a son is bound by filial piety, but true filial duty sometimes requires respectful remonstrance when the elder is making a fatal error.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
repeat disastrous mistakes of the past
A high-level set phrase essential in formal and written Chinese for describing avoidable repetition of failures.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“so they don't want you to go through the same thing.”
“don't repeat the same mistake.”
“I don't want to start over.”
“do anything like this again.”
“Fate won't repeat itself.”
“But I don't want to keep doing this.”