但我不是冲着您来的呀
“But I never meant to hurt you.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我想用孩子逼他低头
“I wanted to use the child to make him crawl.”
但 我不是 冲着您来的 呀
“But I never meant to hurt you.”
不是真的一辈子不让您见孙子
“I didn't really mean to keep him from you forever.”
“Please do not take this personally; you are just caught in the crossfire between me and your son.”
Depriving grandparents of access to their grandchild is considered deeply hurtful in Chinese culture, so the speaker must explicitly pacify the elder to avoid being seen as unfilial.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
targeting someone; directing actions or frustration toward someone
Extremely common oral expression used to clarify who an attack, criticism, or conflict is actually directed against.
Softens the clarification into an earnest, slightly pleading emotional appeal to maintain goodwill with an elder.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“isn't directed at me.”
“I'm not here because of him. I'm actually here to talk to you.”
“You were coming for me.”
“He wasn't targeting you anyway.”
“But it wasn't directed at me.”
“You aren't here for this?”