盈虚有数
“Everything has its time.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
天地无穷
“The world is boundless.”
盈虚有数
“Everything has its time.”
“Everything that rises must eventually fall; our time has come to its natural end.”
Traditional Chinese philosophy views fortune and history like the phases of the moon—fullness (ying) inevitably leads to emptiness (xu), teaching people to remain humble in success and composed in defeat.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
growth and decline are predestined; waxing and waning follow a fixed cycle
A literary idiom (originating from classical texts referencing the moon and fate) used in formal or poetic contexts to comfort someone or accept inevitable loss.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“profits and losses are normal.”
“The common fund had little surplus to begin with.”
“I know what I'm doing.”
“Watertight.”
“Sort of but not really.”
“Why sigh over”