其实内心可脆弱了 你可以不负责任地 撺掇他
“He's actually very fragile inside. You can irresponsibly egg him on,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
长得糙了吧唧的
“rough appearance fool you.”
其实内心可脆弱了 你可以 不负责任 地 撺掇 他
“He's actually very fragile inside. You can irresponsibly egg him on,”
“get him all worked up, and then just walk away. But I can't.”
“Stop messing with his feelings just for fun; you don't care about him, but I do.”
Chinese interpersonal ethics strongly condemn inciting others ('撺掇') to act impulsively when the instigator will not bear the consequences.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
incredibly fragile / so delicate
The pattern '可...了' intensifies an adjective in colloquial northern spoken Chinese.
to egg on / to instigate / to egg someone into doing something
Carries a distinctly negative connotation of urging someone to do something risky or unwise.
Used with '可' in the colloquial intensifier pattern '可...了' to emphasize extreme degree.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Back then, I was weak. I was wrong.”
“Why do you have to hurt him?”
“When I saw people being vulnerable, I even wanted to step on them.”