你这样视万民如草芥之人
“Since you treat countless lives as disposable,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你告诉我
“Tell me.”
你这样 视万民如草芥 之人
“Since you treat countless lives as disposable,”
“You are a cruel tyrant with no moral right to rule.”
In Chinese political philosophy, a sovereign's legitimacy depends on protecting the livelihood of ordinary people; viewing people as worthless weeds forfeits that mandate.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to treat something/someone like worthless grass; to regard with utter contempt
A classical four-character idiom (chengyu) used in formal or dramatic contexts to condemn utter disregard for human life.
the masses / all the common people
A formal, classical noun referring to the entirety of a nation's populace.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“You treat human lives as worthless,”
“And this is how you govern the people?”
“You are utterly inhuman,”
“(He has no regard for human life.)”