你的目的无非也就是 想让他给你养老吗不是
“Your purpose is to let him take care of you when you are old, right?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“If you keep the child here like this, he won't have a good future.”
你的目的 无非也就是 想让他 给你 养老 吗 不是
“Your purpose is to let him take care of you when you are old, right?”
那你把他认回去 不就让他给你续香火吗 不是
“Don't you want to take him back and let him continue your family? Come on.”
“Drop the act about caring for the child's future; you only want him as an insurance policy for your old age.”
Traditional Chinese culture places heavy weight on children providing for parents in old age (养儿防老), but framing it cynically during a dispute turns a filial norm into an accusation of selfish calculation.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
nothing more than / simply just
Use to downplay someone's supposedly complex or noble reasons to a petty reality.
support elderly parents / provide for old age
Commonly used when discussing filial obligations and care for elderly relatives.
Forms a rhetorical question seeking concession from the listener.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“don't I already have you two to take care of me in my old age?”
“could you not send him to a sanatorium?”
“I just wanted to tell him”
“If he really went to a nursing home,”
“I didn't ask him to do that. He did it on his own.”
“I'll give him everything.”