GoodTaste
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- Feb 19, 2016
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- Native Language
- Chinese
- Home Country
- China
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- China
The busband earns $5,000US a month and the wife $3,000. Yet the wife spent $10,000 and bought an LV handbag for herself yesterday. The busband denounces her:"You are a woman who makes this family decline!"
OK. The phrase "makes the family decline" is my translation from Chinese. The Chinese idiom that is extremly common, if directly translated, means "fails the family". The question here is whether the phrase sounds natural in English. How do you native English speakers describe it?
OK. The phrase "makes the family decline" is my translation from Chinese. The Chinese idiom that is extremly common, if directly translated, means "fails the family". The question here is whether the phrase sounds natural in English. How do you native English speakers describe it?