还能苟延残喘
“they can cling to what little life they have left”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
她们留在此处
“At least here,”
还能 苟延残喘
“they can cling to what little life they have left”
“They are barely surviving, which is hardly better than death.”
Classical Chinese literature frequently laments surviving in disgrace or under tyranny as inferior to a meaningful life or honorable death.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
barely scraping by; prolonging a feeble existence
A vivid four-character idiom (chengyu) used to describe living on borrowed time or a struggling entity on the verge of total collapse.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“you might at least be able to struggle and survive.”
“I have lived until now in shame.”
“and living a stolen life for over 10 years...”
“and you had to try and survive,”
“barely surviving in this world.”
“He's barely sustained by medicine right now.”