读迂腐啦
“have made you a stubborn fool.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
读书
“All those studies”
读迂腐啦
“have made you a stubborn fool.”
没我的命令
“The Eldest Young Master must not leave”
“Your fancy book-smarts have made you completely useless and out of touch.”
Chinese culture traditionally respects scholarship, but sharply criticizes 'rotten scholars' who lack pragmatic wisdom (Shigan) and become rigid dogmatists.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
pedantic; dogmatic; out of touch with reality
A sharp derogatory label for intellectuals who cling rigidly to rules or theory without practical sense.
to read to the point of becoming...
A colloquial resultative construction indicating an undesirable outcome from excessive reading.
Fuses the completion of a change with an exclamation, heightening the mocking and exasperated tone.
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Acting all solemn and mature.”
“Stop nagging.”
“is already rotten.”
“I can't remember clearly. Getting old and muddled.”
“I, Old Yu, was out of line.”
“or I'll just annoy you.”