这些人个个心怀龌龊
“They're all despicable at heart,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“You think too highly of those corrupt officials.”
这些人个个心怀 龌龊
“They're all despicable at heart,”
又自觉低我三分
“yet all know they're beneath me.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Intellectuals often displayed righteous disdain toward corrupt officials pursuing petty personal gain rather than lofty ideals.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
harboring vile, dirty, or petty motives
A literary four-character expression used to condemn someone's base moral character.
each and every one
Used before a descriptive phrase to emphasize that an entire category of people shares the same trait without exception.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“How can these people have such dirty minds?”
“(They are two of a kind.)”
“Those people are simply shameless.”
“Most are hypocritical and foolish,”