心愿许他还不是坑自己吗
“Making a wish to be with him is just setting a trap for yourself, no?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Since when did these ladies become so blind?”
心愿许他 还不是 坑 自己 吗
“Making a wish to be with him is just setting a trap for yourself, no?”
不行
“This can't be.”
“Trusting him is complete foolishness and will only ruin you.”
The verb 'keng' originally meant to trap or deceive, and in modern colloquial usage it describes causing unintended harm or setting someone up for failure.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to shoot oneself in the foot / to hurt oneself
Widely used in colloquial Mandarin to describe an action that brings trouble upon oneself.
is nothing but / isn't it just
Used rhetorically to emphasize an obvious negative outcome or truth.
Marks a rhetorical question that expects agreement with the speaker's cynical view.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“But I don't know what wish I should make.”
“She just wanted to repay when she owed him,”
“As long as I can give him his peace back,”
“You can go to them if I don't pay you back.”
“I meant to repay Yuxiu.”
“[Episode 10: The soul has cell memories] Maybe this is the consequence of wishing on a shooting star.”