往后这日子可怎么过呀
“how will she survive in the future?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“If we can't find out where these criminals came from,”
往后 这日子可 怎么 过呀
“how will she survive in the future?”
大人 大
“My Lord!”
“If you don't catch these criminals, our lives are completely ruined.”
Commoners in imperial China dramatized their helplessness before officials, appealing to the magistrate's Confucian duty to act as a protective parent to the people.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
from now on; in the future
A natural colloquial alternative to 今后 or 以后 when discussing ongoing life circumstances.
how to survive; how to get by
Standard rhetorical idiom used when lamenting overwhelming hardship or loss of livelihood.
Heightens emotional vulnerability and vocalizes despair at the end of a rhetorical complaint.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“how can we live this life?”
“how are we going to live? Jiangyue,”
“Our lives will become better in the future.”
“so how will you face each other later?”
“How are we to live now?”
“wanted for her life.”
“[2012] How will we live without you?”
“how to spend the rest of my life.”