可你却忘恩负义 倒卖生漆
“yet you are so ungrateful, reselling raw lacquer secretly.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
还敢提春花姑姑 李德才 你吃穿用度全靠李家
“How dare you bring up Aunt Chunhua? Li Decai, you totally live off the Li family's support,”
可你却 忘恩负义 倒卖生漆
“yet you are so ungrateful, reselling raw lacquer secretly.”
春花姑姑为了包庇你 瞒着李家上下替你做假账
“To cover for you, Aunt Chunhua cooked the books behind the Li family's back.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Chinese ethics place enormous weight on reciprocating kindness (恩). Being labeled '忘恩负义' represents one of the harshest moral indictments possible.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
ungrateful / biting the hand that feeds you
A very strong four-character idiom (chengyu) used to condemn extreme disloyalty and lack of gratitude.
to scalp / to illegally resell goods for profit
Used in contexts involving illicit commerce or illicitly redirecting company/family inventory.
