你一个女同志 低三下四多难看啊
“You're a woman. Isn't it humiliating to lower yourself like that?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“why are you trying so hard to flatter that Chen Donghua?”
你一个 女同志 低三下四 多难看 啊
“You're a woman. Isn't it humiliating to lower yourself like that?”
我低三下四
“Lower myself?”
“Have some self-respect and stop humiliating yourself in front of him.”
Invoking the listener's identity as a woman highlights traditional social norms regarding personal dignity and appropriate conduct in interpersonal relations.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
servile; obsequious; groveling
Use this idiom to describe demeaning oneself to flatter or please others.
how unsightly / how embarrassing it looks
A spoken rhetorical pattern used to point out that someone's behavior is socially inappropriate or embarrassing.
Softens the rhetorical criticism while adding emotional weight to the disapproval.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Many women care about their pride”
“isn't as weak as you think she is.”
“Anyone from another division is fine.”
“"This girl looks so fragile,”
“Leading actress is almost you, really.”
“His look wasn't good enough.”