猜 岂有此理
“Guess. This is outrageous.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“you're nothing but a gutter-born nobody from servant stock.”
猜 岂有此理
“Guess. This is outrageous.”
“Zhen, I'll go reason with them.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In historical settings, insulting someone's servile origins was a severe violation of dignity, prompting loyal companions to defend their master's or friend's honor aggressively.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
outrageous; preposterous; totally unreasonable
A classical four-character idiom widely used in formal and literary spoken Chinese to denounce absurd or intolerable behavior.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“This is outrageous! This is outrageous!”
“This is outrageous. What's so outrageous?”
“Preposterous! Seize him!”
“Outrageous. They're obviously provoking me.”
“- Outrageous! - How dare you!”
“[Qinwu Hall] This is simply outrageous!”