别落在我儿 一个人的头上
“all the sins fall on on my son's alone.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
别落在我儿 一个人 的头上
“all the sins fall on on my son's alone.”
“Me, Li Youtian is willing to take all the responsibilities.”
“Punish me instead; leave my boy out of this.”
Reflects the deep traditional Chinese parental instinct to absorb all retribution and legal or moral punishment so one's progeny can survive unblemished.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
fall squarely on my son alone
A vivid idiomatic construction (落在...头上) meaning that disaster, responsibility, or blame lands on someone.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“fell entirely on me.”
“You'd better not fall into my hands in the future.”
“As for me, my son was away. I was all alone.”
“My son...”
“wasn't my son.”
“Even so, I gave birth to our child after being pregnant for ten months.”