这几年 一点都帮不到家里 也就算了
“These years, you haven't helped our family at all. Fine.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
这几年 一点都 帮不到家里 也就算了
“These years, you haven't helped our family at all. Fine.”
我还要帮你养孩子 完全的 赔钱货
“But now I have to support your child. You are completely a money-losing proposition.”
“Not contributing a dime to this family is bad enough, and I haven't even gotten to the worst part yet!”
In traditional patriarchal mindsets, adult children are expected to financially support their parents, and daughters were historically stigmatized as 'money-losing goods' because they married into other families.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
not at all; not in the slightest (followed by a negative verb)
Used before a negated verb to emphasize total absence or zero degree of an action.
let it pass; bad enough as it is (used before stating something worse)
Often used not to genuinely forgive, but to set up a contrast where an even more intolerable grievance follows.
Marks a grudging acceptance of an undesirable state at the end of a concessive clause.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I'm the one who's kept this family poor, okay?”
“My family isn't well off. It hasn't been easy for them to take me in all these years.”
“I'm not sure I can help.”
“Do you know how much he helped our family?”
“Now, I can't help you anymore.”
“Our family isn't very well off.”