你拿着这些钱来供外室
“You used this money to keep a mistress?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
而你呢
“And what did you do?”
你拿着 这些钱来 供外室
“You used this money to keep a mistress?”
“Don't you feel guilty towards Aunt Chunhua?”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In traditional Chinese family ethics, using shared or ancestral household money to maintain a secret mistress outside the legitimate marriage is viewed as a shameful betrayal of both the spouse and the clan.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
taking this money / using these funds
A common spoken construction used to highlight what resources someone is misusing or spending.
supporting a mistress / keeping a secret lover outside marriage
A traditional or formal term referring to financially providing for an extramarital mistress kept in a separate residence.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“That's shutting the money out.”
“would think you are taking money from men to spend!”
“yet taking payment in the human world?”
“It's better for you to repay the flat loan with the money you pay for the rent.”
“What for? Isn't this my money? Yes.”
“Their financial transactions are normal.”