这一想想是挺让人绝望的
“it does make me feel despair.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“has to take on the burden of changing his whole family's lives,”
这一 想想 是挺 让人绝望 的
“it does make me feel despair.”
苏琪你记住啊
“Su Qi, remember.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Chinese society, children frequently feel immense pressure (逆天改命) to elevate their entire family's socioeconomic standing through individual sacrifice.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
quite makes people (feel...)
Commonly paired with emotional adjectives like 绝望, 失望, or 感动 to describe the psychological impact of an event.
upon thinking about it; when you think about it this way
A colloquial transitional chunk used when arriving at a realization after brief reflection.
Placed at the end of the sentence together with 挺 to assert a perceived quality or state firmly.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Why are you so pessimistic?”
“That sounds pathetic.”
“So sometimes, it's really scary to think about it.”
“and now he feels like there's no hope for the future.”