都说长痛不如短痛
“A short, sharp pain is better than a long, dull ache.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我不知道你到底衡量过没有
“I'm not sure if you've really weighed it yet.”
都说 长痛不如短痛
“A short, sharp pain is better than a long, dull ache.”
我们就假设
“So let's assume”
“Rip off the band-aid now instead of dragging this agony out.”
A deeply rooted pragmatic Chinese belief that dragging out a dysfunctional situation causes more cumulative harm than a clean, painful severance.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
as everyone says; common wisdom has it that...
Used to introduce common consensus or conventional wisdom to strengthen persuasion.
better a brief agony than a lingering pain; better to rip the band-aid off
Standard idiomatic proverb used when advising someone to make a painful but necessary quick break.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“and afraid of pain.”
“There will be no more pain.”
“It hurts! Be gentle!”
“Hang in there. Be gentle. It really hurts.”
“for trouble.”
“It won't hurt, OK? It won't hurt.”