你们也瞧不上眼不是
“Beneath you.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
寻常金银珠宝 绫罗绸缎
“Ordinary gold and silk?”
你们也 瞧不上眼 不是
“Beneath you.”
要不
“So perhaps”
“Ordinary luxuries aren't good enough for people of your stature, so let us consider something else.”
Complimenting another person's elevated taste by disparaging common gifts as unworthy of them is a common social tact in Chinese gift-giving culture.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to look down upon / to consider beneath one's notice
A highly common spoken idiom indicating that someone finds something inferior or unworthy of their taste.
isn't that so? / right?
Placed at the end of a rhetorical question to seek agreement or soften an assumption.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“You don't think I'm good enough for you. That makes sense.”
“You looked down on me.”
“actually, I've always looked down on you.”
“I know you look down on me.”
“Who are you looking down on?”
“You always looked down on her.”