你们当干部的 废话都这么多吗
“Do all cadres chatter like you?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“If you hit someone, apologize. Don't you understand such a simple thing?”
你们当干部的 废话 都 这么多 吗
“Do all cadres chatter like you?”
起来 来来来 起来起来 你跟我说 你要去哪儿
“Get up. Come on, get up. Where are you going?”
“Spare me your sanctimonious speech; you can't tell me what to do.”
Cadres in China are stereotyped as delivering didactic lectures ('dadaoli'); calling it 'feihua' (nonsense) is a direct, rebellious attack on their moral authority.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
those who serve as cadres/officials
A common colloquial way to refer to the class of bureaucratic personnel or administrative leaders.
do you all talk this much nonsense?
An aggressive rhetorical question used to silence someone by labelling their words as useless.
Forms a sharp rhetorical question, intensifying the speaker's provocative stance.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“After all your years as a cadre, you couldn't make judgments?”
“Some official you are.”
“As a cadre, I stand by my word.”
“He owes them an explanation and accountability.”
“Is this how cadres should behave?”
“And we’re supposed to be officials? We’re worse off than beggars.”