就像过街老鼠一样 被人唾弃
“Like a rat in the street, you'll be despised by everyone.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“But I'll let the whole world know that you are a murderer.”
就像 过街老鼠 一样 被人唾弃
“Like a rat in the street, you'll be despised by everyone.”
还有珊珊这孩子
“And Shanshan — that child”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Chinese culture, being compared to a 'rat crossing the street' signifies complete social exclusion and loss of all moral dignity, reflecting the heavy weight placed on collective societal judgment.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
a person despised and shunned by everyone (literally: a rat crossing the street)
Commonly used in the idiom '过街老鼠，人人喊打' to describe someone universally loathed or ostracized.
to be spurned or cast aside with disgust by others
A formal, expressive collocation used when describing complete social condemnation.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Like a rat in the street,”
“a miserable rat everyone wanted to crush.”
“I've been like a rat.”
“are living in the sewer like rats.”
“in this tiny dump of Shengcheng.”
“a stray cat on the street”