我虚荣心 我瞧不起我自己
“It was just my vanity. I hate myself for it.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
是勤工俭学的补助
“Financial aid for students who had to work.”
我 虚荣 心 我 瞧不起我自己
“It was just my vanity. I hate myself for it.”
“I only said that because I was too ashamed to tell the truth.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Chinese culture, receiving welfare or poverty subsidies can carry a heavy emotional burden of social shame, driving people to lie to protect their dignity.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
vanity; desire to keep up appearances
Commonly used to describe caring excessively about external status and saving face.
look down on myself; despise myself
A powerful colloquial chunk used to express intense self-loathing or moral disappointment in one's own actions.
