- 不是后悔就能改变的 - 可是现在呢?
“- cannot be changed by regret alone. - But what about now?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
有些事
“Some things”
- 不是 后悔 就能 改变的 - 可是现在呢 ?
“- cannot be changed by regret alone. - But what about now?”
此时此刻她就在里面
“She is inside, shattered and inconsolable.”
“Save your tears about the past; what matter is what is happening right in front of us right now.”
Chinese interpersonal rhetoric often contrasts futile retrospective lamentation ('后悔') with pragmatic present duty ('现在').
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
cannot simply be achieved/changed just by...
Useful grammatical structure to dismiss an insufficient remedy or excuse.
but what about now?
A pivot phrase used in debates to steer the focus back to an urgent present crisis.
Adds an interrogative bounce that urgently presses the listener for a response on the immediate situation.