你想教育教育这种人吗
“Want to teach this kind of person a lesson?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“What's there to train about someone like him? Can he even be trained?”
你想 教育教育 这种人 吗
“Want to teach this kind of person a lesson?”
想
“Yes.”
“If you are as fed up with them as I am, let's put them in their place.”
In Chinese social and workplace settings, senior or dominant figures often feel justified in 'educating' subordinates or unruly individuals to enforce norms.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to teach someone a lesson; to lecture
Using the duplicated verb softens the formal sense of education into a colloquial expression meaning to discipline or scold someone.
this kind of person
Carries a derogatory or dismissive nuance toward an individual's character or behavior.
Transforms the statement into a direct question to gauge commitment.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I'm disciplining my own child, and I don't need anyone else to interfere.”
“If you teach him right, would he be so rude at his age?”
“Who are you to look down on me and educate me?”
“What right do you have to lecture me like this?”
“is that discipline or abuse? Stop spouting nonsense.”
“She even questioned my parenting philosophy.”