吃了这么大的亏
“at your hands,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
他在你的手下
“He has suffered a crushing defeat”
吃了这么大的亏
“at your hands,”
你又险些
“and you nearly destroyed”
“He took a humiliating defeat from you, so do not expect him to just let this go.”
While daily culture values tolerance ('吃亏是福'), in competitive or martial rivalries, inflicting a massive loss usually guarantees a deadly counterattack.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to suffer losses; to get the short end of the stick
Extremely frequent everyday idiom for experiencing a setback or disadvantage.
such a huge...
Serves as an intensifier emphasizing scale or magnitude in conversational Chinese.
Marks the completion of the action and realization of a past loss.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“yet he suffered such a huge loss.”
“You've taken a huge loss in the past 10 years.”
“Turns out I was the one who got the raw deal.”
“It's just that your loss is huge.”