这孤儿寡母的
“Just the two of them, a widow and her son.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
都是姜老太一人把他带大
“Old Madam Jiang raised him all by herself.”
这 孤儿寡母的
“Just the two of them, a widow and her son.”
“How did they end up offending a fox demon?”
“They have no man to protect them and are completely vulnerable; it is heartbreaking.”
In traditional patriarchal Chinese society, a widow with a dependent child ('孤儿寡母') was viewed as the most socially and physically vulnerable demographic, traditionally eliciting moral sympathy.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
an orphan and a widow; defenseless mother and child
A set four-character idiom representing the quintessential archetype of a vulnerable, helpless family unit.
Functions as a colloquial nominalizing marker at turn-end indicating an ongoing state or characteristic.