你吃相怎么那么难看啊
“Why are you being so greedy?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你再看你报的
“Then, look at yours.”
你吃 相 怎么那么 难看 啊
“Why are you being so greedy?”
以后谁跟你一桌
“Who will want to work with you?”
“You are being far too greedy and shameless with your numbers; have some decency.”
In Chinese culture, how one acts around food reflects their moral character; 'chixiang nankan' metaphorically condemns those who pursue personal gain without restraint or grace.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
ugly eating manner; behaving greedily or ungracefully without decorum
A very common metaphor used in spoken Chinese to criticize someone who pursues profit or benefits in an aggressively unprincipled manner.
Enhances the rhetorical force and expresses intense disapproval or exasperation.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Hey. Is it bad?”
“Too ugly? Let me ask you,”
“It's because the way you go about things is just too ugly.”