平白地污了你的名声吗
“to tarnish your reputation, won't you?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
那岂不是让那些嚼舌根子的人
“you'll give a chance to those gossipmongers”
平白地污了你的名声吗
“to tarnish your reputation, won't you?”
“Stop making a scene before you completely destroy your own good name for these gossips!”
In Chinese society, especially for women historically, moral reputation (名声) was fragile and intensely vulnerable to neighborhood gossip; protecting it often dictated restraining one's public reactions.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
for no reason; gratuitously; needlessly
Used before verbs to indicate that an unfortunate consequence happens without justification.
to tarnish one's reputation; to stain one's good name
A semi-formal spoken collocation used when warning someone about moral or social consequences.
Turns the statement into a rhetorical question to urge agreement and self-reflection.
