我挺对不起他的
“I feel really sorry for him.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
他叫闻朗
“His name is Wen Lang.”
我 挺对不起 他的
“I feel really sorry for him.”
比起我
“Compared to me,”
“I let him down, and the guilt weighs heavily on me.”
Saying '对不起某人' often implies a lingering moral debt or breach of loyalty (亏欠) rather than a trivial everyday apology.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to let down / to feel sorry towards
Functions here as a transitive verb/adjective phrase meaning to feel guilty or indebted towards someone.
quite / fairly
A standard spoken framework to moderate or emphasize an adjective or psychological state.
Occurs in the '挺...的' construction to assert and soften the emotional evaluation.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I let him down this time.”
“I feel I really sorry about all this.”
“I always feel sorry for you.”
“will now... Sorry.”
“I feel like I've let you down.”
“I failed my parents too.”
“it would be unfair to what he suffered.”
“I'm truly sorry.”
“Apologizing to me is useless.”
“I also know, all these years, the person I've wronged the most is you.”
“You've let yourself down!”
“I'm really sorry. It's okay. No need...”
“I really want to apologize to him.”