还把她送到 自己亲爹的身边
“and even sending her to your own father's side—”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
教她学跳舞
“teaching her to dance,”
还把她送到 自己 亲爹 的身边
“and even sending her to your own father's side—”
杜少
“Young Master Du,”
“Can you believe the audacity and cruelty of orchestrating this against her own father?”
Exploiting biological family ties (especially father-child relations) violates fundamental Confucian ethics and is seen as particularly depraved.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
biological father
A colloquial and emphatic term for one's biological father, often contrasted with foster or stepfathers.
send to someone's side
Common structure used to describe placing a person in close proximity to another.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“ask her parents to beat the mistress of her husband.”
“he's still her biological father.”
“He could abandon his own daughter,”
“as your own son.”
“but he's your own flesh and blood.”
“to be her father just now. What kind of father sides with outsiders?”