你让我受那个罪干啥子
“Why put me through that misery?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你现在病得很重 必须戒烟 反正也活不了两天了
“You're very sick. You have to quit. I don't have long left anyway.”
你让我受 那个 罪 干啥子
“Why put me through that misery?”
烟比你的命还重要吗 我这条老命一文钱不值
“Cigarettes mean more to you than living? My life is worthless.”
“I'm dying anyway, so just leave me alone and let me enjoy my cigarettes.”
Ailing elders may display fatalism ('my life is worth nothing anyway') to preserve personal comforts, framing medical restrictions as senseless torment rather than care.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to suffer hardships; to endure pain
Commonly used in spoken Chinese to express that a medical treatment or lifestyle restriction feels worse than the illness itself.
why; what for (dialectal/spoken)
A regional or colloquial spoken variant of '干什么', signaling frustration or exasperation.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Why did you offend him?”
“I do whatever he tells me to do.”
“What law did I break? You brought me here just like that?”
“You should know what fate has in store for you.”
“I'll do whatever you want.”
“When have I ever suffered like this?”
“I'll do whatever you tell me to do.”
“with you once.”