愿赌服输 玩不起
“You chose to play— and now you can't accept the loss?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
他们骗了我不少银子
“They cheated me out of a lot of money!”
愿赌服输 玩不起
“You chose to play— and now you can't accept the loss?”
还愣着干什么 跑
“What are you standing there for? Run!”
“You lost fair and square, but you are such sore losers that you resort to cheating or fighting.”
In traditional Chinese culture and fiction, gambling carries a strict ethical expectation of accepting losses without reneging; breaking this code marks one as dishonorable.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
accept defeat if you gamble; be a good loser
A common four-character idiom used when reminding someone to abide by the stakes of a bet or competition.
cannot afford to play; sore loser
Used colloquially to mock someone who takes a game too seriously, backs out, or cannot handle losing.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“A bet is a bet. It's not my fault you didn't win. If you're so good,”
“a bet's a bet.”
“A bet's a bet, Mr. Win.”
“A bet is a bet, Miss Landlady.”
“I lost the bet, fair and square.”
“We accept the outcome.”