女子与小人难养也
“women top the list.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
都说
“Of all things ungovernable,”
女子与 小人 难养也
“women top the list.”
“You are inherently unreasonable and impossible to deal with.”
Quoting the Confucian Analects serves to project moral and intellectual authority, shielding personal bias behind classical scripture.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
women and petty people are hard to handle
A famous line from the Analects of Confucius, historically cited to express disdain or patriarchal superiority.
difficult to raise / hard to deal with
Literally refers to rearing or nurturing, but classically means difficult to keep content or handle properly.
A classical final particle that marks a definitive, aphoristic judgment.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“That I would still be alive to see you.”
“Roll away the villains.”
“I still have something to say.”
“I had no choice.”
“of that vile Cai Pingshu,”
“As a woman, I'm no worse than her.”