LIFE / CULTURE
Learning Chinese
Published: Jan 27, 2021 06:38 PM
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Pieces of a Woman / 女人的碎片
/ (nǚrénde suìpiàn)

1. How can I give this pain to someone else? Someone who's already suffered? And I know she would not want that. At all. That is not why my daughter came into this world for the time that she did.

我怎么可以给别人这种痛苦?有的人已经受过苦了啊?而且我知道她根本不会有受苦的欲望。这就是为什么我的女儿这么久才来到这个世界。

(wǒzěnme kěyǐ ɡěibiérén zhèzhǒnɡ tònɡkǔ? yǒuderén yǐjīnɡ shòuɡuò kǔlea? érqiě wǒzhīdào tāɡēnběn búhuì yǒushòukǔde yùwànɡ. zhèjiùshì wéishénme wǒde nǚér zhèmejiǔ cáiláidào zhèɡe shìjiè.)

2. You need to calm down, brother. 

兄弟, 你需要冷静。

(xiōnɡdì, nǐxūyào lěnɡjìnɡ.)

3. I promised my daughter she'd be the first one to cross this bridge.

我向我的女儿保证她会成为第一个过这座桥的人。

(wǒxiànɡ wǒde nǚér bǎozhènɡ tāhuì chénɡwéi dìyīɡè ɡuòzhèzuòqiáode rén.)

4. I've been meaning to ask, how is it you can build a bridge when you can't tell time? 

我一直想问?如果不确定时间点, 怎么建一座桥梁?

(wǒyìzhíxiǎnɡwèn, rúɡuǒ búquèdìnɡ shíjiāndiǎn, zěnme jiànyízuò qiáoliánɡ?)

5. She did just buy us a car.

她只是给我们买了辆车。

(tāzhīshì ɡěiwǒmen mǎileliànɡchē.)

6. That's why she bought a minivan. She wants to emasculate me. We rarely find a satisfactory explanation.

这就是为什么她买了一辆小型货车。她想削弱我的力量。我们很少找到令人满意的解释。

(zhèjiùshì wéishénme tāmǎile yíliànɡ xiǎoxínɡ huòchē. tāxiǎnɡ xuēruò wǒde lìliànɡ. wǒmen hěnshǎo zhǎodào lìnɡrénmǎnyìde jiěshì.)

Illustration: Liu Xidan/GT