这都什么年代了 你这还包办婚姻呢
“Don't try to arrange marriage for young people now.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
这都什么年代了 你这还 包办婚姻 呢
“Don't try to arrange marriage for young people now.”
什么叫包办婚姻呀 这叫肥水不流外人田
“I don't think so. They deserve each other.”
“Drop this ridiculous matchmaking idea; we choose our own partners nowadays.”
While older generations often feel responsible for engineering suitable matches, modern youth push back using rhetoric celebrating modern freedom of choice.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
what era are we living in; what century is this
A common rhetorical retort used to criticize someone's ideas or actions as ridiculously backwards or outdated.
arranged marriage
Frequently used metaphorically in modern conversation to criticize unsolicited meddling in someone's love life.
Marks a change of times and adds rhetorical emphasis to how modern the current era should be.
Softens the rhetorical accusation into a conversational, slightly playful reproach.
