但这是我们的全部家当了
“but it's all the savings we have.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“I know he owed millions of yuan. It's a few hundred thousand yuan,”
但这 是我 们的 全部家当 了
“but it's all the savings we have.”
“I thought paying back some might reduce his sentence,”
“Please understand that I have emptied out my entire life savings to help him, so do not look down on this amount.”
In Chinese criminal proceedings, actively compensating victims and exhausting one's family assets often serves as a significant mitigating factor for sentencing.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
all of one's family possessions or life savings
Use this spoken idiom to emphasize that you are risking or giving up everything you own.
Emphasizes the completion of an exhaustive state, highlighting that nothing more remains.