我心里憋屈得很
“I have been holding this in for so long.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我 心里憋屈 得很
“I have been holding this in for so long.”
沈法官
“Judge Shen,”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
'憋屈' embodies a distinctly Chinese emotional concept where one suffers an unfair injury or humiliation but feels constrained from retaliating or being heard.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
feeling pent-up injustice / feeling wronged and suffocated
A highly colloquial Northern expression describing emotional distress caused by unfair treatment that one cannot easily vent.
extremely / very
An emphatic post-adjectival modifier used in colloquial spoken Chinese.