难道都读给狗吃了吗
“just to feed it to the dogs?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你读的那些学问
“Have you learned all that scholarship”
难道 都 读给狗吃了 吗
“just to feed it to the dogs?”
我不管你怎么想
“I don't care what you think.”
“You are supposed to be educated, but you are acting completely shameless and foolish.”
In traditional Chinese culture, education is tied strictly to ethical conduct; failing to act virtuously means one's studies have gone entirely to waste.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
wasted one's education; learned nothing of moral value despite being educated
A harsh colloquial idiom used to rebuke someone whose disgraceful behavior betrays their formal learning.
could it be that; do you mean to say
Placed at the beginning of a clause to form a pointed, skeptical rhetorical question.
Converts the sentence into a rhetorical question loaded with contempt and disbelief.
