在你最有难处的时候 他们帮过你吗
“Did they help you when you were in trouble?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
请他们帮帮忙 你别提你那些老同学旧交情了
“Ask them for help. Don't mention your old friends.”
在你 最有难处的时候 他们 帮过你吗
“Did they help you when you were in trouble?”
别说你们住哪儿了
“Let alone where you live,”
“Wake up and face reality: those people abandoned you before and they won't help you now.”
Traditional networks of old classmates often carry expectations of reciprocal aid, but harsh realities frequently expose such social capital as fragile.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
facing difficulties or hardship
Commonly used in spoken Chinese to refer euphemistically or empathetically to financial or life predicaments.
Forms a rhetorical question here, forcefully emphasizing a negative presupposition rather than asking for real information.