免得让她想起来又伤心了
“so she won't get sad again.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你别特别去问她
“Don't ask her about it,”
免得 让她 想起来 又 伤心 了
“so she won't get sad again.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Chinese culture, family members often deliberately avoid mentioning painful memories to spare their loved ones unnecessary emotional distress.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
so as not to / lest / to avoid
Use this connective at the beginning of a clause to explain how a preceding warning prevents an undesirable outcome.
to recall / to remember
A common directional complement used when a memory spontaneously resurfaces or is triggered.
sad / heartbroken
Use this adjective to describe deep emotional sorrow, especially involving loss or grief.
Indicates a potential change of emotional state into grief that the speaker wishes to prevent.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“to keep her from getting upset.”
“and hoped you would too.”
“She couldn't let it go.”
“I didn't want her to have a hard life,”
“Stop causing trouble for her.”
“I shouldn't have let her get slapped.”