都怪他自己狂妄自大
“It's his own arrogance to blame.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
也一同销毁了
“they've been disposed of as well.”
都怪 他 自己 狂妄自大
“It's his own arrogance to blame.”
竟不知道得罪的是什么人
“He didn't even know who he offended.”
“He brought this disaster on himself by overestimating his own importance.”
Traditional Chinese culture strongly cautions against excessive pride and failing to know one's place in social hierarchies, viewing hubris as the root cause of inevitable self-destruction.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
arrogant and overbearing; conceit
A formal four-character idiom (chengyu) frequently employed in spoken language to strongly criticize hubris and inflated self-worth.
it is entirely due to / all to blame on
Used to place the blame directly onto a specific person, behavior, or external factor.