却对家人 一味地姑息纵容 你也不要夸我了
“but when it comes to their family, they just turn a blind eye. Stop praising me.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Many leaders can be strict with themselves,”
却对 家人 一味地 姑息纵容 你 也不 要夸我了
“but when it comes to their family, they just turn a blind eye. Stop praising me.”
我真后悔
“I really regret that”
“Please stop flattering me; I failed morally where it counted most and do not deserve your respect.”
In contemporary Chinese political culture, an official's inability to rein in spouse and children from corruption is regarded as a severe moral and institutional failure, frequently lamented in anti-corruption self-examinations.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
blindly / persistently (with a negative implication)
Describes doing something obstinately without considering negative repercussions.
to appease and indulge / to shield wrongdoing
A formal, serious idiom commonly used in official critique to denote inappropriate favoritism and leniency.
stop praising me / do not flatter me
Used to deflect compliments, ranging from modest politeness to deep, genuine self-reproach.
Indicates a plea for the cessation of the ongoing praise.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“All of them are my family members. Who would eliminate their own family members?”
“We are family, after all, right?”
“why are you still making your family worry about you?”
“I would never do something as immoral as disowning my parents.”
“How can his family escape implication?”
“It was wrong of my dad to go confront him.”