这还用想 老宫不是柳下惠
“Come on, Gong's no saint.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
会是这样的结果吧
“think it'd actually happen.”
这还用想 老宫 不是 柳下惠
“Come on, Gong's no saint.”
这跟他什么性格没关系
“It's not about his personality.”
“Are you kidding? He is a normal guy who obviously won't resist that kind of temptation.”
Liu Xiahui is the archetypal figure of unyielding moral purity regarding women in Chinese tradition; invoking his name in modern slang is an idiomatic way to describe someone's susceptibility to romantic or physical temptation.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
is there even any doubt; it's obvious
A rhetorical device used in spoken Chinese to dismiss hesitation and stress that the outcome is self-evident.
a paragon of moral integrity immune to sexual temptation
An allusion to a historical figure famed for holding a woman on his lap without moral lapse; almost always used negatively ('not Liu Xiahui') to say a man has normal sexual desires.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Didn't expect you to be like this, Gong.”
“Besides, I was also thinking about Granny Yu's matter.”
“Ziqiu must have thought about all the ways that I could have.”
“I've been thinking about it and I feel it's necessary”
“so you try your best to make it up for us.”
“It seems the Empress Dowager means to make an example of him.”