为啥不供你上完大学啊
“Why didn't he pay for you to finish college?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
像是个干部
“seems in civil service.”
为啥不 供你 上完 大学啊
“Why didn't he pay for you to finish college?”
他是我养父
“He's my foster father.”
“If he was well-off, it makes no sense that he stopped paying for your college.”
In Chinese culture, parents are traditionally expected to fund their children's education through college graduation, making dropping out due to lack of parental support unusual.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
why; how come
A very common colloquial, spoken equivalent of 为什么 frequently used in Northern Chinese dialects and informal daily conversations.
to financially support someone through college
Use this collocation when describing parents or benefactors funding a student's university tuition and living expenses.
Softens the interrogative question to sound conversational and genuinely curious rather than an aggressive interrogation.