受委屈的- what does this mean?

adam_p_lax
 March 12, 2013, 01:18 PM posted in I Have a Question

I saw this on a chinese tv show and I looked it up in the dictionary and couldn't really find a decent translation (it says something like "emotionally hurt"). I don't know if anyone could explain better what that word meant? thanks!

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John
 March 13, 2013, 04:33 AM

My dictionary says "to be wronged," and while this feels a little awkward in English, it's accurate.

Is nomally an adjective 委屈 referring to the feeling of being wronged.  "我觉得很委屈" is a common usage of it (and hard to translate!).  受委屈 just turns it into a verb phrase.

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adam_p_lax

Ah ok, well the context was a mother who had just gotten divorced was talking to her child and trying to reassure her child to not feel upset about that divorce (so I guess "feel wronged" or maybe like we would say "don't take it personally" or "don't think it's because of you" would be good translations).

My Chinese girlfriend couldn't give me a good translation of it either!

Thanks!