这是一个很不好的优点
“That's a very bad virtue.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“I admit, sometimes, I'm overly honest.”
这是 一个 很不好的优点
“That's a very bad virtue.”
可是既然不爱了
“But since you don't love,”
“Stop patting yourself on the back for being brutally honest; you are just being selfish and cruel.”
In Chinese interpersonal communication, framing hurtful bluntness as 'honesty' violates the norm of tactfulness and mutual face preservation during sensitive relational conflicts.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
a bad merit / a flaw disguised as a virtue
Used oxymoronically to mock someone who brags about a trait that actually causes harm to others.