门风不正的下等人家
“with corrupt morals and low breeding.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Just looking at this confession it's clearly one of those degenerate households”
门风不正 的下等 人家
“with corrupt morals and low breeding.”
“You spend your days carousing with them stirring up trouble.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Chinese society, a family's moral heritage ('menfeng') reflects on the character of every family member and affects marriage and social standing.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
having poor family values or dubious household morals
A formal descriptive idiom used to condemn a whole family's moral standing.
low-class or lowly household
Carries strong class-based derogatory contempt, typical of traditional period drama speech.
