你就是 替人孵蛋那个
“You are the foolish bird”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你知道你是谁吗
“Do you know what you are?”
你 就是 替人孵蛋 那个
“You are the foolish bird”
傻鸟
“that hatches others' eggs.”
“You're a pathetic chump working hard and raising someone else's kid for nothing.”
Raising a child that is not biologically one's own carries profound cultural taboos and derogatory stigmas in traditional Chinese patrilineal mindsets.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to hatch eggs for someone else; raising another's offspring blindly
A vivid and derogatory colloquial metaphor referring to someone foolishly investing resources or raising children that belong to another person.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I'll be your scapegoat.”
“you will be the perfect scapegoat.”
“But I'm only looking after it temporarily.”
“Of course, we have to keep this golden goose.”
“You are a cold-blooded animal!”
“Watch your mouth. Don't speak if you don't know what to say.”