谁让你出去打工不好好学习的
“Besides, you should study properly instead of having part-time jobs.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
再说
“Besides, you should study properly instead of having part-time jobs.”
谁让你 出去 打工 不好好学习 的
“Besides, you should study properly instead of having part-time jobs.”
行
“Fine.”
“You only have yourself to blame for abandoning school to work menial jobs.”
In traditional and contemporary Chinese culture, academic success is seen as the only reliable path to upward social mobility, while dropping out to work menial jobs ('dagong') is heavily stigmatized by family members.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
who told you to... / it's your own fault for...
A rhetorical phrase commonly used to shift blame onto the listener for a mistake or unfortunate outcome.
to work a temporary or manual job
Commonly used in spoken Chinese to refer to wage labor, migrant work, or part-time jobs.
study hard / focus properly on academics
A standard admonition given to youth stressing the supreme importance of schooling.
Emphasizes the past action and reinforces the critical tone of the rhetorical question.
