你就拿你弟弟妹妹 做挡箭牌
“every time we touch a critical issue?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Can you not use your siblings as a pretext”
你就拿你弟弟妹妹 做 挡箭牌
“every time we touch a critical issue?”
不管你是大哥还是小弟 你首先应该
“No matter you are an elder brother or a younger one, you should first”
“Stop playing the martyr; you're only hiding behind your family to cover your own faults.”
While family loyalty is a core virtue, hiding behind it to justify wrongdoing is viewed as cowardly and morally bankrupt in legal and social discourse.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to use someone or something as a shield or pretext
A vivid idiomatic construction used when exposing someone's false excuse or deflection tactic.
shield; scapegoat; excuse
Literally an arrow shield, figuratively refers to any pretext used to deflect blame.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“are you going to let your brother make a scene here?”
“I mean that I kept your brother from hurting my brother.”
“From now on, you'll be the one to protect your brother.”
“Take care of your little brother.”
“to buy his siblings' silence.”
“And stop using Grandpa as an excuse.”