为了一己得失 便要寻死觅活
“and attempts suicide over personal gains and losses!”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“gives up over a little setback”
为了一己得失 便要 寻死觅活
“and attempts suicide over personal gains and losses!”
但在你死前
“But before you die,”
“Your desire to die isn't noble; it is purely selfish and pathetic.”
Prioritizing personal despair over broader familial or social obligations is traditionally condemned as narrow-minded and dishonorable.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
personal gain and loss; selfish interests
A formal idiom used to emphasize that someone is acting out of narrow, individual concerns rather than the greater good.
to threaten suicide; to make a suicidal scene
A vivid colloquial idiom with strong negative connotations describing someone making extreme, histrionic scenes about dying.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“You think I acted for personal gain? What else? For Yuehai's people?”
“Don't get yourself killed.”
“and dig her own grave.”
“He only cares about his own interests and doesn't give a damn whether we live or die.”
“Everyone has to die eventually.”
“and endure in silence forever”