我没有母亲
“I never had a mother.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
原来
“It turns out,”
我没有母亲
“I never had a mother.”
你的存在
“Your very existence”
“As far as I'm concerned, you are dead to me.”
Openly disowning one's parents is one of the most drastic acts in a Confucian society where filial devotion is paramount, indicating unbearable betrayal.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to not have; without
When used with core kinship terms, it delivers an emphatic statement of estrangement or repudiation.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“But I don't have a dad.”
“he couldn't bring himself to hurt his own mother,”
“I don't have any family either,”
“I won't have a dad anymore.”
“If it weren't for my mommy, it would have been someone else.”
“I have been an orphan since childhood.”