你现在在她们的眼里 就是一只会下金蛋的鹅
“Now in their eyes, you're a goose that can lay golden eggs.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Back then they hated me for being a freeloader here.”
你现在在她们的眼里 就是 一只会 下金蛋的鹅
“Now in their eyes, you're a goose that can lay golden eggs.”
“They disliked you back then, but now they want you to be their son-in-law.”
“Don't be flattered—they only tolerate and flatter you now because you bring lucrative value.”
Chinese interpersonal observation often acknowledges 'shili' (snobbery or calculating opportunism), where a person's social capital shifts overnight based on their earning capacity.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
in the eyes of...
Standard conversational structure used to describe how a particular person or group perceives someone.
the goose that lays golden eggs; a cash cow
A borrowed Western fable idiom widely used in modern Chinese to denote a continuous source of wealth.
