我们也不想再连累你了
“We don't want to implicate you anymore.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“You've taken good care of us.”
我们 也 不想再 连累你了
“We don't want to implicate you anymore.”
“You have done more than enough, and we feel terrible taking any more of your energy or sacrifice.”
A deeply rooted Chinese interpersonal virtue where recipients of aid feel intense shame or anxiety if helping them harms the benefactor's own well-being.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to burden / to drag someone into trouble
Used to express deep remorse or reluctance when one's own problems impose a cost on someone else.
do not want to ... anymore
A frequent pattern to express determination to discontinue an undesirable situation.
Signifies a boundary or cessation of an ongoing state, reinforcing that the burden should stop here.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I don't want to cause you more trouble.”
“I don't want the people around me to be involved in this because of me.”
“I don't want to keep bothering you.”
“So don't let me add to your burden.”
“I don't want to drag you down like them.”
“I don't want to exhaust you any further.”
“I feel like I got you into this.”
“I can't drag you down and let people gossip about you. I'm not afraid.”
“I don't want him to suffer more for me.”