已经寝食难安了吧
“must be losing sleep over it by now.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“I bet the one who tried to kill me”
已经寝食难安了吧
“must be losing sleep over it by now.”
你我师兄弟多年
“We've been fellow apprentices for years,”
“I know it was you who betrayed me, and your guilty conscience must be eating you alive.”
In traditional Chinese narrative ethics, wronging a peer or sworn sibling inevitably leads to internal torment and moral self-punishment (寝食难安).
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
unable to eat or sleep peacefully; troubled and deeply uneasy
A common formal idiom used to describe acute psychological anxiety or distress over unresolved problems or guilt.
Marks an entered state of chronic agitation.
Adds a rhetorical or presumptive tone, turning the observation into a provocative supposition.