这俩孩子太可怜了
“these two poor kids.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“we must save Ronghua and Bensheng,”
这俩孩子 太可怜了
“these two poor kids.”
祯娘
“Zhen,”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
these two
Colloquial contraction of '这两个' (zhè liǎng gè), widely used in northern and standard spoken Mandarin. Never follow '俩' with a measure word like '个'.
so pitiful; poor thing(s)
Standard emotional exclamation used to show sympathy for someone in a sad or helpless situation.
Completes the '太...了' (too/so...) exclamatory structure to heighten emotional intensity.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“You, a poor village girl, are pretending to be an official's kid”
“What a poor child.”
“Changyu and her sister are all by themselves.”