人 只有太多的非分之想
“People are pitiful”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
可怜
“How pitiful.”
人 只有 太多 的 非分之想
“People are pitiful”
才会可怜
“only when they want too much.”
“People aren't tragic by circumstance; their own greed makes them pitiful.”
Traditional Chinese morality heavily cautions against 'feifen' (unwarranted ambition), viewing overreaching desire as the primary source of self-inflicted downfall.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
improper desires / overreaching ambitions
A formal idiom describing desires for things, status, or people beyond one's rightful place or ability.
only when... then...
A conditional grammar structure indicating that the first clause is an indispensable condition for the second.