你视人命如草芥
“You treat human lives as worthless,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
谁无辜
“Who is innocent?”
你 视人命如草芥
“You treat human lives as worthless,”
以人身养毒虫
“using living bodies to raise poisonous insects.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Classical ethics strongly condemns viewing people as grass or mustard (caojie), a traditional trope symbolizing despotic depravity.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to treat human life as worthless grass; to have utter contempt for human life
A powerful four-character idiom used in literary or dramatic contexts to denounce tyrannical or ruthless cruelty.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Since you treat countless lives as disposable,”
“He views all living beings as ants;”
“You trample on human lives.”
“(He has no regard for human life.)”
“casually giving up a life...”
“could also be a devil who treats human lives like grass.”