都已经被蛇虫鼠蚁啃食殆尽了
“have long been eaten away by snakes and rats.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
实则连地基梁柱
“Even the foundation and beams”
都已经 被 蛇虫鼠蚁 啃食殆尽 了
“have long been eaten away by snakes and rats.”
“The best way to clean a room”
“It looks standing from the outside, but inside it is entirely rotten and beyond saving.”
In Chinese political thought, dynasties and grand houses rarely fall strictly from external blows; rather, internal parasitic corruption ('termites gnawing the beam') hollows them out first.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
snakes, insects, rats, and ants; all kinds of vermin/scavengers
Often used literally for vile pests or figuratively to describe corrupt, parasitic people nibbling away at foundations.
to gnaw away until completely depleted; utterly devoured
A literary idiom used to depict complete destruction or consumption of resources or structures.
Marks the completed state of total devastation.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“had already decayed beyond saving.”
“has long been riddled with their infiltration.”
“corroded from within a long time ago.”
“lurks a heart long rotten”
“but even if scattered by fish,”