虽然你跟你父母已经划清了界限
“Although you've cut ties with your parents,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
对
“Yes.”
虽然你跟你父母已经划清了界限
“Although you've cut ties with your parents,”
但是你我都清楚
“we both know”
“You may pretend you cut ties with them, but deep down nobody truly believes you.”
A prominent political ritual during China's revolutionary periods where individuals had to publicly denounce family members to prove political loyalty.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to draw a clear line / to sever ties
Often used historically to denote publicly repudiating politically compromised relatives or ideological enemies.
although... nevertheless...
Standard contrastive conjunction structure used to acknowledge a surface fact before delivering a contradictory reality.