我还是太爷嘴里的朽木
“I'm still the deadwood Master talks about.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
是吧
“right?”
我 还是 太爷嘴里 的 朽木
“I'm still the deadwood Master talks about.”
还是那个
“Still that”
“No matter what I do, I will never be good enough in his eyes.”
Originating from Confucius's Analects, this phrase is a classic Chinese cultural metaphor for a person deemed incorrigible or beyond redemption by an elder or teacher.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
rotten wood (a hopeless case / someone unteachable)
Derived from the idiom '朽木不可雕也' (rotten wood cannot be carved), used idiomatically for someone seen as incapable of improvement.
in [someone's] words / as described by
Used colloquially to cite someone else's habitual description or judgment of a person.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Master is almost fully recovered.”
“Sir, let me tell you. It was this insect”
“you pushed Great-grandfather to a dead end.”
“Grandpa, what is not important? Skip to the later part. If there's no beginning,”
“Master just lives in his own world.”
“where will Great-grandfather put his dignity?”