哪还顾得上你是个什么东西啊
“I can't even afford a hot meal, not to mention to look after you.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“When I'm not on my luck, I can't even afford a hot meal,”
哪还 顾得上 你是个 什么东西 啊
“I can't even afford a hot meal, not to mention to look after you.”
“I remember you said before that you can't leave the capital,”
“When you're starving and hit rock bottom, nobody gives a damn about your pride or who the hell you think you are.”
In Chinese culture, likening a person to a 'thing' (dongxi) usually carries a strongly derogatory connotation. Here, it refers to how personal status and pride become entirely worthless in the face of a survival crisis, reflecting the harsh reality among the underprivileged where dignity inevitably yields to basic livelihood.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to have the time, energy, or means to attend to or care for someone or something
Commonly used in rhetorical questions or negative constructions, such as 'na gu de shang...' (how could one bother with...) or 'gu bu shang...' (unable to attend to...), indicating that one has no leeway to care about something due to pressing urgency or hardship.
what kind of person one amounts to (carrying strong contempt, disparagement, or self-mockery)
Colloquially used toward others to express strong contempt or vent frustration, or used self-deprecatingly to emphasize one's own utter insignificance and lowliness.
Used at the end of a rhetorical question to heighten emotional emphasis, sarcasm, or lamentation.
