自以为是
“You made choices for my life”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
应该谢谢哥哥我才是
“You should be thanking me.”
自以为是
“You made choices for my life”
替别人的人生做了选择 你竟然还期待弟弟感谢你
“out of your own self-righteousness, and you expect me to thank you for it?”
“You think you're doing good, but you're actually completely arrogant and selfish.”
In Chinese family dynamics, older relatives often make choices on behalf of younger ones claiming it is 'for their own good', which can spark fierce rebellion against presumptuous self-righteousness.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
self-righteous / opinionated / thinking oneself always right
A common four-character idiom (chengyu) used in spoken Chinese to criticize someone who stubbornly acts as if they know best.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“a little too self-righteous?”
“is just self-righteousness.”
“what it means to be too clever”
“but now it's just pure arrogance.”