怕别人说我是资产阶级余毒未消
“I was afraid people would say I still carried bourgeois habits.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
以前不敢穿
“I didn't dare wear it before.”
怕别人说 我是 资产阶级余毒 未消
“I was afraid people would say I still carried bourgeois habits.”
“With the wrong background, even beauty is a crime.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
During radical political campaigns in mid-20th-century China, dressing up or showing feminine beauty was attacked as 'bourgeois decadence', causing individuals with compromised backgrounds to live in constant dread.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
bourgeoisie; capitalist class
A Marxist socio-political concept used heavily in historical Chinese contexts as an ideological label.
residual poison not yet eradicated
A formal four-character political idiom used to describe lingering toxic habits or incorrect ideology.
