你们毕竟是夫妻一场
“you were husband and wife after all.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
予诚啊
“Yucheng,”
你们 毕竟是 夫妻一场
“you were husband and wife after all.”
爱情没了
“Even if the love is gone,”
“Don't be so harsh—you shared a life together, so treat each other with some grace.”
Chinese culture places immense weight on '情分' (accumulated sentiment and moral obligation); even when marriages fail, parties are expected to preserve mutual decency out of respect for their shared past.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
having been husband and wife for a period; sharing a lifetime as a couple
An emotional phrase invoked when appealing to empathy and goodwill between spouses facing conflict or parting.
after all is / are
Used to introduce an undeniable mitigating fact or relationship that warrants special consideration.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“For the sake of your past marriage,”
“he and I were husband and wife.”
“For the sake of our years together, and since you have”