那是打脸 三番两次地打
“[Integrity, Prudence, Diligence, Harmony] That was a slap in the face! Slapping me time and time again!”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
那叫不客气啊
“[Integrity, Prudence, Diligence, Harmony] You call that blunt?”
那是 打脸 三番两次 地打
“[Integrity, Prudence, Diligence, Harmony] That was a slap in the face! Slapping me time and time again!”
上一次当着陈三 这一次是当着陛下
“Last time it was in front of Third Mr. Chen, this time it was in front of His Majesty.”
“Don't downplay this; they are deliberately humiliating us over and over.”
Causing someone to lose face ('da lian') publicly, especially before social superiors or rulers, is considered a grave, unforgivable insult in Chinese interpersonal politics.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to humiliate publicly; to slap someone's face metaphorically
Extremely common in both classic and modern Mandarin to describe exposing someone's embarrassment or openly discrediting them.
repeatedly; time and again
Use this idiom when expressing annoyance or criticism about an action occurring over and over.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Don't be so blunt with her.”
“What a slap in the face!”
“I admit, I was slapped in the face.”
“No. You can't beat me anyway.”
“He slapped us in the face, so we have to hit back, right?”
“It was three against one, and I left every single one of them eating dirt.”