已经长到了枝丫 进入了膏肓之期了
“the illness has reached the top branches and entered an incurable phase.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
将这松树的主干砍掉 才能看得见 可是如今
“a pine tree's trunk in the early stages, the condition can't be noticed. However, now,”
已经长到了枝丫 进 入了 膏肓之期 了
“the illness has reached the top branches and entered an incurable phase.”
“The damage is irreversible and it might be too late to save them.”
Traditional Chinese culture frequently borrows classical medical idioms like 'gaohuang' to dramatize natural, technical, or moral crises.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
entered the period/stage of...
A semi-formal structural pattern used to declare that a process has reached a particular critical stage.
terminal stage / beyond cure
Derived from the idiom '病入膏肓', used here metaphorically to describe an incurable crisis.
Signifies a newly developed, irreversible state of worsening.
