含辛茹苦抚养继子
“She raised her stepchildren with everything she had.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
当事人三十年
“Thirty years.”
含辛茹苦 抚养继子
“She raised her stepchildren with everything she had.”
等待她的最终是空白的遗嘱
“Yet all that waited for her was a blank will,”
“She sacrificed everything for this family, making what happened to her completely unjust.”
Traditional Chinese morality places immense value on raising children through hardship (含辛茹苦); failing to reciprocate through inheritance or elder care is viewed as a grave moral violation.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
endure all kinds of hardships; suffer bitter toils
A set Chengyu almost exclusively used to describe a mother's or caregiver's selfless, agonizing efforts in raising children.
raise/support a stepson
Standard formal/legal collocation for bringing up non-biological offspring.