舞女就是舞女 始终上不了台面
“A dancing girl is just a dancing girl. She'll never be presentable.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
感谢麦卡锡教授的 精彩发言
“Thank you, Professor McCarthy, for your wonderful speech.”
舞女 就是 舞女 始终 上不了台面
“A dancing girl is just a dancing girl. She'll never be presentable.”
马会是什么场合 你看她露胳膊露腿的
“This is the Jockey Club. Look at how much skin she's showing.”
“No matter how she dresses up, she will always be low-class and beneath us.”
Traditional Chinese social hierarchies often stigmatized entertainment professions as 'dishonorable', leading high-society elites to view performers as permanently deficient in decency.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
unpresentable in polite society / beneath dignity
A disparaging idiomatic phrase used to describe people, manners, or items deemed too uncouth or disgraceful for formal occasions.
from beginning to end / always
Used to emphasize an unchangeable condition or permanent status, often with negative finality.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“they could be in some dancing girls' beds.”
“I'm here managing dance hostesses,”
“What about me looks like a dance hostess?”
“and Miss Feng's temperament,”
“Not at all like a dance hall girl.”
“The dance hall is flourishing too—”