一比十 到最后饿的还是我们自己
“One to ten? In the end, we're the ones who'll starve.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
把比例调低 你跟全村几百口人商量过吗
“If we lower the ratio, did you talk to the hundreds of villagers about it?”
一比十 到最后 饿的还是我们自己
“One to ten? In the end, we're the ones who'll starve.”
你是我们族里的旁支外系
“You're from a collateral branch of the clan.”
“You are sacrificing our survival to benefit yourselves, and I won't stay silent.”
In traditional rural clan structures, core branches often make unilateral decisions that disenfranchise peripheral lineages (旁支外系), leading to deep internal disputes over shared resources.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
in the end; ultimately
Use this phrase to emphasize the inevitable negative consequence of an ongoing decision.
it is still ourselves (who will bear the consequence)
Emphasizes that nobody else will bear the pain or cost except the speaker's own group.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Lunch break is only ten minutes. If you're late, there won't be any food left! Thanks!”
“Not starving counts as a win.”
“I'm starving.”
“master just one, and you'll never be out of work.”
“We can't just starve to death.”
“We made it back, starving and exhausted."”