所以我们算是同病相怜吧
“We totally understood each other.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
十四岁也出来打工了
“she started working at 14.”
所以我们 算是 同病相怜 吧
“We totally understood each other.”
那天晚上
“We drank all night that day.”
“We come from the same painful background, so you can trust that I understand you completely.”
In Chinese social interaction, acknowledging shared suffering (chiku) creates a profound and immediate interpersonal bond.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
fellow sufferers empathizing with each other; in the same boat
Use this chengyu to express mutual empathy based on similar unfortunate experiences.
can be considered as; more or less
Used to hedge a statement or soften an evaluation to make it sound less absolute.
Softens the assertion into a tentative suggestion or seeking confirmation.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“If you dare come any closer, we'll both be done together!”
“we are suffering from the same condition as you.”
“For the sake of us being compatriots,”
“Since we're all the same kind... Since we're all the same kind,”
“But we're old acquaintances after all.”
“I'll wire it to your mom as a gesture from both of us.”
“Since it's our joint effort,”