说那些话 我都替那孩子臊得慌
“Those words from her. I was embarrassed for that kid.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
她穿得干净 人模狗样的 那心比我们还脏
“She dressed neatly and put on airs. Her heart's filthy.”
说那些话 我都替 那孩子 臊得慌
“Those words from her. I was embarrassed for that kid.”
见过吗
“Seen her?”
“What was said was utterly shameless and disgraceful.”
Moral condemnation in Chinese culture often invokes public shame ('sào' / loss of face) when social norms of decency are broken.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
feeling thoroughly ashamed or mortified
A highly colloquial Northern expression expressing intense embarrassment or secondhand embarrassment.
to feel mortified on someone else's behalf
Used when another person is doing something so shameful that even observers feel embarrassed for them.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I shouldn't have said those words to him.”
“And I said those nonsensical things.”
“Who do you think you're fooling?”
“Some things get distorted when passed around.”
“Don't give me that nonsense!”
“I heard those nasty words about you.”