她因为我的见死不救
“that because I refused to help her back then,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
才得知当年
“Only then did I learn”
她 因为 我的 见死不救
“that because I refused to help her back then,”
被卖进了挽月阁
“she was sold into Wanyue Pavilion.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
because of my...
Used followed by a noun phrase or nominalized verb to directly attribute an outcome to one's own actions.
refusal to save someone in mortal danger
Here the idiom is used as a noun phrase after a possessive pronoun to describe the speaker's specific sin.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I couldn't save her,”
“She protected me with her own life.”
“I couldn't stand aside and see him die, right?”
“why did you ignore my plea?”
“I don't want to stand by and watch.”
“She's the one who caused Mother's death, committing the heinous crime.”