如今都身陷囹圄 嘴还这么硬
“behind bars, you're still talking tough.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
一个手下败将
“As a defeated loser”
如今都 身陷囹圄 嘴还这么硬
“behind bars, you're still talking tough.”
“You're saying all this to provoke me, aren't you?”
“You are a powerless prisoner now; your arrogance is completely pathetic.”
In Chinese conflict dynamics, '嘴硬' denotes keeping up a bold verbal front to save face even when physical victory is completely lost.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to be trapped in prison; to fall behind bars
A literary idiom used to describe being incarcerated or trapped in captivity.
stubborn in speech; refusing to admit defeat or fault
A very common colloquial expression describing someone who talks tough despite being clearly defeated or wrong.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“To this day, they're in hell, suffering because of what I did.”
“You're still in the dark?”
“He's still under house arrest by them.”
“You are nothing but a convicted prisoner”