你这个不人不鬼的东西
“You monster—neither human nor ghost—”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
娘
“Mother!”
你 这个 不人不鬼的东西
“You monster—neither human nor ghost—”
就该死在这里
“you should just die here!”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Denying a person's status as human by labeling them a 'thing' or 'neither human nor ghost' represents an extreme level of condemnation in Chinese discourse.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
neither human nor ghost; monstrous; grotesque
A strong derogatory idiom used to describe someone who has deteriorated severely in appearance, state of being, or moral decency.
thing (used pejoratively toward people)
Referring to a person as a 'thing' is a deliberate dehumanizing insult in spoken Chinese.
