几年前要不是 你闹那一出 那萍萍一毕业
“Hadn't you made that scene years ago, she would've stayed there right after graduation.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Do you not want her to go? I don't want her to go?”
几年前 要不是 你 闹那一出 那萍萍一毕业
“Hadn't you made that scene years ago, she would've stayed there right after graduation.”
早就留在省城了 李达夫
“she would've stayed there right after graduation. Li Dafu,”
“You ruined our daughter's future with your selfish tantrums, and you're still doing it now.”
In Chinese families, children settling down in major provincial capitals represents significant upward mobility, making parental interference in career geography a source of bitter family conflict.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
if it weren't for
Essential counterfactual conditional marker used to introduce a crucial past obstacle or savior.
to put on that dramatic scene / to make that fuss
A disparaging colloquial idiom referring to someone causing an unnecessary or disruptive dramatic incident.
as soon as... then...
Expresses that the second event follows immediately after the completion of the first.
