还不是和那些人一样？ 嫌贫爱富
“She was just like the rest, chasing wealth and scorning the poor.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
还不是 和那些人 一样 ？ 嫌贫爱富
“She was just like the rest, chasing wealth and scorning the poor.”
所以你就杀了她？ 你们若不想听我说
“So you killed her for that? If you don't want to hear it,”
“She was just a snob like all the rest, so don't pretend my resentment wasn't justified.”
In Chinese moral discourse, '嫌贫爱富' is one of the harshest character judgments, condemning anyone who measures people by money and status. Labeling a victim this way is a rhetorical move to transfer blame from the accuser to the deceased.
Marrying for wealth while scorning poorer suitors is a classic trigger for deep personal humiliation in Chinese stories of revenge and crime, where the humiliated party frames violence as an almost inevitable consequence of the snob's cruelty.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
rhetorical pattern 'isn't it just...' used to claim something is obviously the case
Use '还不是...?' to sharply assert that the answer is self-evident; it carries a dismissive, often bitter edge, so avoid it in polite or neutral explanations.
to look down on the poor and fawn over the rich; snobbish, gold-digging
A fixed four-character idiom for condemning snobbery in marriage, friendship, or social dealings; it is a strong moral accusation, not a neutral description.
just like those people
Use this phrase to lump someone into a despised group and strip away their claim to being special or different.
