黄白之物于我无用
“Money is of no use to me.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Your New Year's gift. Open it.”
黄白之物于我无用
“Money is of no use to me.”
你不带走啊
“You're not taking it with you?”
“Keep your money; I care about higher virtues, not worldly riches.”
Scholars, martial artists, or monks in traditional Chinese culture often publicly disdained money to demonstrate moral integrity.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
gold and silver / worldly riches
Literary idiom referring dismissively or elegantly to money and wealth.
useless to me / of no value to me
Formal classical phrasing using '于' to indicate beneficiary or perspective.
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“can they truly be weighed only in silver and gold?”
“These are all useless things.”
“useless thing.”
“-What are you talking about? -What a waste. It's not entirely impossible.”
“We are both ungrateful.”
“this belongs to Zhuang Luobai?”