孩子把人熬得精疲力竭
“The baby wore everyone down to exhaustion.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
不哭 来 来
“Don't cry. Come, come.”
孩子把人 熬得精疲力竭
“The baby wore everyone down to exhaustion.”
婚姻就从这没日没夜地哭号 和琐碎的家务里
“And amid the endless crying and the tedium of housework,”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Chinese culture, raising children often entails prolonged, self-sacrificing endurance, colloquially described as 'enduring/cooking' through endless sleepless nights.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
utterly exhausted; drained of all energy
A set idiomatic phrase (chengyu) used to describe extreme physical or mental fatigue.
wears someone down to the point of...
Colloquial structure using '熬' (endure/wear down through time) to express prolonged suffering or toll.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Look how hungry the kid is”
“has really worn her out.”
“Our kid will make it eventually!”
“it's hard for me to bear this torment.”
“that she's suffering in silence.”
“These kids must be able to endure hardship.”