你知道什么叫道貌岸然吗
“Do you know what it means to be sanctimonious?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“They are best at calling black white.”
你知道什么 叫 道貌岸然 吗
“Do you know what it means to be sanctimonious?”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Confucian culture places immense weight on moral authenticity; accusing someone of being 'sanctimonious' (daomao'anran) is one of the gravest insults against character.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
sanctimonious / hypocritically dignified
A formal four-character idiom (chengyu) used critically to describe someone who feigns high morals while acting dishonorably.
do you know what ... means?
A rhetorical framing formula used to emphasize a strong definition or moral judgment.
Marks a rhetorical question intended to focus the listener's attention on an ensuing critique.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“What a hypocrite.”
“what ambitious remarks you're saying now?”
“She's articulate,”
“- After you got to know me, you stopped-- - I know what I said.”
“Do you realize what you're saying?”
“Look at this world.”