人如果太贪心啊
“if a person is too greedy,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
人如果太贪心啊
“if a person is too greedy,”
“it usually doesn't end well.”
“Don't push your luck or ask for too much, because it will backfire on you.”
Invoking parental proverbs ('my dad always said...') is a widely accepted conversational tactic in Chinese society to lend weight and moral authority to one's advice.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
too greedy; overly grasping
Commonly applied not just to money, but also to overreaching ambition or wanting too many conflicting things.
if... (topicalized pause)
The particle '啊' after a conditional clause pauses the thought to draw the listener's focus to the hypothesis.
Serves as an intra-sentence pause marking the topic and signaling that a consequence is coming.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Don't be greedy.”
“Yet for your own greed,”
“All of this was caused by the greed of others.”
“That's driven by human greed.”
“it would fuel their greed. You know. Okay.”
“A man cannot be greedy.”
“People are pitiful”