永远做别人的狗
“and always be his dogs.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
不扳倒马德荣 你我永远被踩在脚下
“If we don't take down Ma Derong, you and I will always be stepped on,”
永远 做别人的狗
“and always be his dogs.”
你愿意呀
“You want that?”
“Wake up! If we do nothing, we will spend our entire lives as humiliated lackeys.”
In Chinese culture, calling someone a 'dog' carries severe derogatory connotations of slavish subservience, lack of personal agency, and total humiliation.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to be someone's dog / to act as someone's subservient lackey
A highly insulting, vulgar idiom used to describe complete subjugation and loss of dignity.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“never to forget”
“I would have killed you already.”
“Promise we'll never be apart.”
“We will be together forever.”
“We must be together forever.”
“"It's best if you never come back."”