天经地义对不对
“is perfectly justified, right?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
天经地义 对不对
“is perfectly justified, right?”
你现在这么当面一套
“Now you act one way in front of me”
“You know you are morally obligated to do this, so you have zero excuse for your two-faced behavior.”
Chinese speakers often invoke cosmic and unshakeable moral axioms to corner an opponent before pointing out their contradictory behavior.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
perfectly justified; an unalterable principle of nature
An idiom used to emphasize that a moral rule or obligation is completely natural, unquestionable, and beyond dispute.
am I right?; isn't that so?
A tag question used here aggressively to force the interlocutor to concede a point.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Isn't paying back debts the universal truth?”
“is only natural, but I wouldn't”
“is only right.”