咱们费了多大的劲
“we went to such great lengths”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
儿啊
“Son,”
咱们 费了多大的劲
“we went to such great lengths”
“to cancel your engagement to that jinx.”
“Do not undo everything we worked so hard to free you from.”
In traditional China, an arranged betrothal was a binding legal and moral contract between two families; canceling an engagement brought significant social shame and required extraordinary effort to dissolve.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
took so much effort, went through tremendous trouble
A highly colloquial pattern used to complain about or highlight the exhausting effort spent to achieve an outcome.
Marks the completion of the exhausting effort that was already expended.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“...went through a lot of trouble.”
“I worked so hard”
“It took a great deal of effort.”
“You know how much effort it took to secure this client.”