我才不会这么一根筋 非要上大学呢
“I wouldn't be this stubborn about getting in.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“so we could see a bigger world out there,”
我才不 会这么 一根筋 非要 上大学呢
“I wouldn't be this stubborn about getting in.”
赖上我了
“So now it's on me?”
“Stop acting like college is the only path; you are being completely rigid.”
While higher education is traditionally seen as the primary route to social mobility in China, calling someone '一根筋' challenges the obsession with the academic track.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
stubborn; single-minded; inflexible
A highly common informal idiom describing someone who refuses to look at alternatives.
to insist stubbornly on doing something
Used before verbs to highlight unreasonable or adamant persistence.
Emphasizes the speaker's mild incredulity and rhetorical stance.