都是读过书的人
“We're educated people.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
后面坐的是一个傻儿子
“A silly son sitting in the back.”
都 是 读过书的人
“We're educated people.”
“Stop making weird family jokes.”
“We are cultured people, so stop acting so vulgar and crossing the line.”
In Chinese culture, being 'educated' implies not just literacy, but an obligation to observe moral boundaries, etiquette, and social decorum.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
educated person; civilized individual
Invoked either seriously or half-jokingly to appeal to someone's sense of propriety and decorum.
we are all people who...
A rhetorical framing establishing common ground or shared moral expectations.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I'm not cut out for studying anyway.”
“He's just single-mindedly devoted to studying.”
“than the rest of us, after all.”
“What self-respecting scholar would attend?”
“You can only improve by reading.”
“Later, many craftsmen”