他确实是思子心切
“He's just desperate to see his son.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
那 毕竟他是孩子亲爸爸
“After all, he is the boy's father.”
他 确实是 思子心切
“He's just desperate to see his son.”
但绝对不能委屈了孩子
“But we absolutely cannot distress the child.”
“I understand he misses his boy, but that doesn't give him an excuse to do whatever he wants.”
In Chinese family mediation, acknowledging the biological parent's natural affection (blood ties) is often required before delivering constructive criticism.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
desperately longing to see one's son
A formal four-character idiom used to describe a parent's intense yearning for their child.
indeed; truly is
Commonly used in spoken Chinese to concede a point before adding a contrasting clause with 'but'.