我没给过她这样的机会 一个男人
“I never gave her that kind of chance. As a man,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
开玩笑
“Don't be ridiculous.”
我 没给 过她 这样 的 机会 一个男人
“I never gave her that kind of chance. As a man,”
“why would you want someone else to spend money fighting for you?”
“I have my pride; I would never demean myself by living off a woman's money.”
Traditional Chinese gender norms strongly discourage men from depending financially on women, as doing so often incurs severe loss of face (丢面子) and self-respect.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
have never given
Used to express an emphatic negative past experience or past boundary.
such an opportunity
Standard phrase to designate a specific opening or condition mentioned previously.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“♪ If love's an agreed accident, I imagine you in every alternate universe ♪ but never found the right moment to give it to you. Do you like it?”
“I-I gave you a chance.”
“If I didn't give you this chance, then who would I?”
“I'll only please who gives me the chance to accomplish all that.”
“to offer you my gift. Congratulations on your election as the Secretary of Yuehai.”
“I would never have had the chance to touch that stuff.”