怎的就遇上这种事
“How did they meet such a fate?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“The Fan couple were such good people.”
怎的就遇上这种事
“How did they meet such a fate?”
康婆子
“-Granny Kang. -You're here.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Chinese culture traditionally emphasizes that good people should receive good recompense; seeing kind people suffer often prompts moral bewilderment.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
how on earth could; why ever did
A dialectal or period-style equivalent of '怎么就', expressing perplexed lamentation.
to run into this kind of misfortune
Commonly used to express sympathy when discussing someone else's misfortune.
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Why did something like this have to happen?”
“would've known this could happen?”
“How could this happen to you?”
“how this could happen.”