爱之欲其生 恶之欲其死
“When a man loves you, he wants you to live well. When he hates you, he wants you dead.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我才不稀罕呢
“I don't care about that at all.”
爱之欲其生 恶之欲其死
“When a man loves you, he wants you to live well. When he hates you, he wants you dead.”
男人
“Men—”
“Their love is completely selfish and manic—they treat you like treasure one day and want to destroy you the next.”
Educated Chinese speakers often quote pithy classical phrases (chengyu or classical verses) to elevate their argument into a universal psychological truth.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to wish someone to live when loving them, and wish them dead when hating them; extreme fickleness
A famous classical idiom from the Analects of Confucius describing extreme, irrational emotional bias.
desire someone/something to be...
A classical literary construction used to express a desire regarding an external party or state.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Love turned into hatred; he killed her out of wrath. That makes sense.”
“Such a strong will to survive, huh?”
“I want to die.”
“I never thought someone would truly die for love.”
“His love turned into hatred, and he killed her.”
“Make him lose himself completely.”