自寻短见又有何用
“What's the point of ending your own life?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
小姐你没事吧
“My Lady, are you alright?”
自寻短见 又有何用
“What's the point of ending your own life?”
“It might bring momentary relief and put an end to everything,”
“Dying will not solve your problems, so stop being so foolish and face reality.”
In traditional Chinese thought, ending one's own life is seen as shortsighted and an evasion of responsibility toward family and ancestors, hence the critical rhetorical questioning.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to commit suicide; to take one's own life
A traditional, literary idiom referring to ending one's own life, often carrying a connotation of shortsightedness.
what is the use of...; what good would it do
A rhetorical question structure used to emphasize that an action is completely useless or futile.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“what's the use of learning all this?”
“I have my own uses.”
“What's the point of learning this?”
“bloody battles for?”
“What's the point of telling?”
“Why are you trying to kill yourself?”