哪个不是读书种子
“Not a single exception!”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
诗礼传家 世代簪缨 你看看我们祖家 那几个孩子
“Scholarship, honor. Our relatives' children... scholars, everyone!”
哪个 不是 读书种子
“Not a single exception!”
可荣哥儿呢
“And then there's him!”
“All our other clan boys are natural scholars, so this failure is completely unacceptable.”
Traditional Chinese aristocratic and gentry families prized academic success and civil service examinations above all else as the true measure of a youth's worth.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
a natural talent for studying / a born scholar
A traditional literary metaphor praising a young person destined for scholarly pursuit and imperial examinations.
which one isn't / every single one is
A rhetorical phrase used to emphasize that an entire group shares a specific positive or negative trait.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“But Yan Zheng is not a scholar.”
“Passing off weeds as seeds”
“It seems I'm really not cut out for studying.”
“I'm not cut out for studying anyway.”
“This is not an academy at all.”
“who isn't driven by wild ambition?”