这个孩子 打小就没心没肺
“That girl has never had a scheming bone in her body.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
她什么也没有看见
“She saw nothing...”
这个 孩子 打小 就 没心没肺
“That girl has never had a scheming bone in her body.”
“I ask you to extend your forgiveness,”
“She is completely harmless and naive, please do not hold anything against her.”
A traditional protective strategy where an elder describes their junior as foolish, naive, or careless so that a powerful figure dismisses them as beneath threat or punishment.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
since childhood; from an early age
Colloquial northern Chinese expression synonymous with '从小'.
carefree; oblivious; thoughtless (harmlessly scatterbrained)
Can be derogatory or affectionate depending on context; here it is used strategically to depict harmless innocence.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“He was born weak”
“Songge is so thoughtful.”
“if I lose this child too,”
“That kid was seriously ill too.”
“He's too young to understand anything.”
“These kids are something else.”