活该他心疼 谁让他当初送我进府的
“He deserves it. Who asked him to send me to the residence?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
非心疼死不可
“he will be heartbroken.”
活该 他 心疼 谁让 他当初送我进府的
“He deserves it. Who asked him to send me to the residence?”
可是您现在 为了护卫军营里那位 恨不得长在府里
“But now, for the man in the Guardian Corps camp, you wish you could just live there.”
“He made his bed and can lie in it; I want him to suffer the way he made me suffer.”
In Chinese interpersonal ethics, causing someone emotional distress or abandoning them forfeits one's claim to sympathy later on, encapsulated by the harsh sentiment '活该'.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
serves someone right / to deserve it
A blunt, colloquial term used to express satisfaction at someone's misfortune when it is perceived as self-inflicted.
who told him to... / he has only himself to blame for...
Rhetorical question attributing full responsibility of an outcome onto the subject's own past decision.
Appears at the end of the cleft structure ('是...的') to affirm the historical fact that justifies the resentment.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Serves him right. Even I wanted to hit him.”
“He deserves it for bullying civilians.”
“I wouldn't have kindly taken him in at first.”
“To think I used to pity him.”
“It serves us right for suffering with you.”
“so he deserves to be rich in this life, you know?”