你先管好你老婆吧
“Worry about your wife first.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
还让我管好我自己
“Telling me to mind my own business?”
你先 管好 你 老婆 吧
“Worry about your wife first.”
进来
“Come in.”
“You have no right to lecture me when your own marriage is a mess.”
Invoking someone's inability to manage their spouse or family is a potent pragmatic blow in Chinese interpersonal arguments.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to manage properly; to keep in line
Often used bluntly to tell someone to discipline someone or mind their own business.
you'd better... first
A pragmatic formula used to redirect focus or dismiss someone's prior command.
Softens the imperative formally while delivering a sharp, dismissive suggestion.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Mind your own business first, okay?”
“Let's just mind our own business first.”
“Mind your own business.”
“I will not be able to take care of you in future.”
“You need a wife to take good care of you.”
“if you leave me in charge of them,”