就不会有那场车祸了 您也不用受罪
“that car accident wouldn't have happened. You wouldn't have had to suffer.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
要是早点说的话
“If I had said it earlier,”
就不会 有那场车祸了 您 也不 用 受罪
“that car accident wouldn't have happened. You wouldn't have had to suffer.”
胡羞也不用那么难过了
“And Hu Xiu wouldn't have been so upset.”
“I blame myself deeply for not preventing your suffering.”
Using the honorific '您' (nin) alongside distress over an elder's '受罪' (suffering) reflects deep filial concern and traditional deference.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to suffer hardships; to endure pain
Commonly used in spoken Chinese to express sympathy towards someone enduring physical or mental hardship.
need not; wouldn't have had to
Used in counterfactual statements to describe an avoided undesirable condition.
Indicates a counterfactual consequence following the previous hypothetical condition.
