尸骨还未寒
“is hardly cold,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
袁庆
“Yuan Qing's body”
尸骨还未寒
“is hardly cold,”
你
“yet you...”
“He barely died and you are already betraying him!”
Chinese ethics strictly deplores opportunistic or disrespectful actions occurring immediately after a death, viewing the cooling period before burial as sacrosanct.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
the deceased's bones are barely cold; before the body is even cold
An idiomatic metaphor used to morally reprimand someone who switches loyalties or violates respect immediately following someone's death.
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Now, his bones are not yet cold,”
“Now he has just passed away.”
“"Rotting bones in a tomb."”
“You, a pile of dry bones in a grave— hardly worth worrying about.”
“memorial requesting retirement,”
“was made from skeletons,”
“it's a land of starving corpses and piles of bones!”
“Once you find her dead body, if verified, send her body to her family.”
“The remains' features were too damaged to recognize.”
“The identity verification of the skeleton keeps getting delayed.”
“But these remains were already highly skeletonized.”
“the rest of the deceased's remains should still be in the pond”
“while Fan Erniu and his wife were barely cold in their graves,”
“Manager Pan has just passed away.”
“His body is still in Dachang. His bones aren't even cold yet.”
“Shortly after her father's death,”