却从没有好好地夸过你
“properly praised you all these years.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
可爷爷这些年
“But I have never”
却从 没有好 好地 夸过你
“properly praised you all these years.”
反倒是常常地苛责你
“Instead, I often scolded you”
“I love you and value your worth, even though I failed to express it aloud all these years.”
Traditional Chinese elders often withheld open praise to avoid spoiling children, making late-life admissions of praise deeply touching moments of emotional vulnerability.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
properly; thoroughly; earnestly
Placed before verbs to express doing something with full attention, care, or proper decorum.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I have never looked down on you.”
“you've never been this kind to me.”
“I've never called your name once.”
“You've never let me down,”
“I'm quite as good as you said.”
“I just praised you for nothing.”