你总不能一直留在这里抄经吧
“You can't just stay here copying scriptures all day, can you?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“(But I felt she had changed.) Today is our wedding day.”
你 总不能 一直 留在这里 抄经 吧
“You can't just stay here copying scriptures all day, can you?”
可是我的经还没抄完
“But I haven't finished yet.”
“Stop using copying scriptures as an excuse to avoid me and this marriage.”
In traditional Chinese culture, copying Buddhist scriptures (抄经) is an act of purification, penance, or monastic devotion, often used in dramatic contexts as an excuse to avoid secular romance or emotional conflict.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
surely cannot / can hardly
A rhetorical hedge used to persuade someone by implying that their current course of action is unreasonable or unsustainable.
stay here all the time / remain here indefinitely
Describes continuous, unchanging persistence in a single physical location.
Softens the rhetorical objection into a suggestive appeal, seeking agreement.
