自然成了他的眼中钉肉中刺
“has naturally become a thorn in his side.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我李家
“Our Li family”
自然 成了 他的 眼中钉 肉中刺
“has naturally become a thorn in his side.”
祖父知道
“I know”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Prominent aristocratic families in Chinese history frequently provoked paranoia in power holders, rendering them inevitable targets of purge.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
a thorn in one's side; an unbearable nuisance or target of hatred
A vivid 6-character idiom describing a person or faction that someone finds utterly intolerable and seeks to eliminate.
naturally became; inevitably turned into
Used to denote a logical, inevitable outcome resulting from circumstances.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“From that day on, I became a thorn in everyone's side.”
“makes him a thorn in mine too.”
“(that thorn piercing my heart)”