如今内忧外患
“With troubles both within and without,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你莫要放在心上
“Please don't take it to heart.”
如今内忧外患
“With troubles both within and without,”
劳烦姐夫费心
“we trouble you”
“We are facing critical crises all around us, so we cannot afford distractions.”
In Chinese political and historical discourse, framing an era as having 'internal worries and foreign aggression' calls for solidarity, sacrifice, and the suppression of personal grievances.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
internal troubles and external threats; beset with crises at home and abroad
A classic four-character idiom (chengyu) used when an organization, nation, or family faces compounded challenges from within and outside.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“There's another person who can cause turmoil”
“Our entire homeland defense now”
“we are in a time of war”
“The court is in turmoil.”
“We're in big trouble ourselves.”
“We are already in grave danger.”
“The current top priority”
“Nanjing is in grave danger now.”
“But the urgent matter now”
“is in grave danger.”