等到咱家倾家荡产 家破人亡的时候
“Wait until we lose everything and the family is destroyed?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Then how long will we wait for it to arrive?”
等到 咱家 倾家荡产 家破人亡 的时候
“Wait until we lose everything and the family is destroyed?”
它到了还有用吗
“Will it be of any use then?”
“If we wait any longer, we'll all be dead or broke, and whatever you're waiting for won't matter.”
Idioms like '倾家荡产' and '家破人亡' embody the ultimate traditional nightmare: the complete erasure of lineage wealth and family integrity.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to lose the entire family fortune / go completely broke
A powerful four-character idiom (chengyu) describing total financial ruin.
with family broken and members dead
A tragic chengyu used to describe the utmost catastrophe befalling a household.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Even if I go bankrupt this time,”
“I'm going to sue him until he goes bankrupt!”
“and made me homeless.”
“For another family, this could be a catastrophe that bankrupts them.”
“You destroyed the Qi family”
“My family property is almost all sold off.”