我从小没有爹妈
“I have been an orphan since childhood.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
发誓
“Swear.”
我 从小 没有爹妈
“I have been an orphan since childhood.”
我拿我媳妇发誓
“I swear on my wife.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Standard traditional oaths invoke parents or ancestors; being an orphan leaves the speaker needing another sacred personal anchor to prove his word.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
since childhood / from a young age
A very common conversational adverbial used to describe conditions or habits persisting since early childhood.
dad and mom / parents
A colloquial northern Chinese term for parents, much more informal than '父母'.