你就是太勤快了 才让这一家子人 都变得懒惰
“Their entire family became lazy exactly because you worked too hard.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
亦是日日疲惫不堪
“I still felt exhausted every day.”
你 就是 太勤快了 才让这 一家子 人 都变得 懒惰
“Their entire family became lazy exactly because you worked too hard.”
可不止如此
“It wasn't just that.”
“You are enabling their bad habits by doing everything yourself; stop wearing yourself out for them.”
In Chinese domestic culture, traditional diligence and self-sacrifice (especially by women or caretakers) can inadvertently foster dependency and laziness among household members.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
the whole family / the entire household
A colloquial way to refer collectively to all members of a family living together.
it is precisely because... that...
A causal structure used to isolate and emphasize the primary cause behind a negative outcome.
Marks the excessive degree when paired with 太 (tai), emphasizing that diligence has crossed into a detrimental excess.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“you just spoil your son too much.”
“Since when did you grow so diligent?”
“You spoiled him. I'm telling you. You didn't talk about”
“But he just couldn't make it big.”
“Young people, you're not working hard enough.”
“It's hard for you to work from dawn until dusk.”