你们说该不该打
“Don't you think he deserves a beating?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我打烂你的嘴
“I'll slap you!”
你们说 该不该 打
“Don't you think he deserves a beating?”
我大胤
“[Chongde Hall] Our Great Yin”
“Everyone agrees this insolent fool deserves to be beaten, right?”
In Chinese disputes, rallying bystanders into moral consensus is a standard rhetorical strategy to establish moral superiority before taking aggressive action.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
should or should not / whether one ought to
An A-not-A question used to demand a verdict on moral or behavioral correctness.
deserves a beating / asks for punishment
A common colloquial phrase used when someone says or does something outrageous or offensive.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“but whether you want to ask or not.”
“Don't speak like that.”
“Didn't I tell you to play something higher?”
“So I wasn't supposed to call? - Do you think we're teenagers? - Don't I have that right?”
“We've said our piece and scolded her.”
“Just stop asking.”