你怎能这般说娘呢
“how can you speak to me like that?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
晏儿
“Qingyan,”
你怎能这般说娘呢
“how can you speak to me like that?”
“I may have made mistakes in the past,”
“You have no right to speak to your own mother that way, regardless of what I did.”
In traditional Chinese culture, children are expected to maintain respect toward parents regardless of parental mistakes, making any harsh remark from a child socially transgressive.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
how can/could (one)
A formal or dramatic rhetorical pattern used to express shock, reproach, or indignation.
like this; in this manner
A literary and period-drama equivalent of 这样, used to describe an extreme degree or manner.
Softens the rhetorical question into an emotional plea while intensifying the sense of being wronged.