谁让你不孝顺 你都开这么大店了 这么有钱了
“It serves you right for being unfilial. You have such a big shop and so much money,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“What are you looking at? Your shop was exactly my target.”
谁让你不孝顺 你都 开这么大店 了 这么有钱 了
“It serves you right for being unfilial. You have such a big shop and so much money,”
“but you won't support my second uncle and grandma. You know what?”
“You owe our family your wealth, and you deserve to have your property destroyed for withholding it!”
In extended Chinese families, traditional filial piety is sometimes twisted by entitled relatives to morally shame wealthier kin into redistributing their wealth.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
serves you right for / who told you to
A confrontational opening used to assign full blame to the listener for whatever retaliation they suffer.
unfilial / lacking filial piety
One of the most severe moral accusations in Chinese society, denoting neglect of elderly family members.
Marks the new state of immense wealth and success, which the speaker perceives as an unearned excess.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“They had to be filial. How have we not been filial?”
“I'll be one for you.”
“When has he ever treated me bad?”
“You ungrateful brat!”
“Then why didn't you go and fulfill your filial duty?”
“If he dares to treat you bad, I'll be the first to break his legs.”