Question Please help me with translating this Cn text

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  1. yuri_moon

    yuri_moon Well-Known Member

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    Can someone pls help me with tling this phrase its rather urgent

    绝不能放弃审美 底线 ......!
     
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    there's some kind of bottom line in terms of appearance this person won't accept, not really sure what would be the ideal phrasing because of my poor Chinese + no context go by


    Presumably if it's regarding a person then no matter how nice or capable they are it doesn't matter if they're too ugly

    if it's some kind of object, like idk a Mecha robot then even if the Mecha would be more powerful it's not OK unless it also looks cool enough


    Literal dictionary tl would be: Absolutely can not give up on the bottom line in aesthetics


    p.s. why are there spaces in the raws? I doubt there should be any

    绝不能放弃审美[space]底线[space]......!
     
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  3. nonononononono

    nonononononono NONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONO

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    I must not lower my standard!
     
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    Google says: Never give up the aesthetic bottom line...!
     
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    Amaruna Myu ugly squid dokja (●´∀`●)

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    I'm assuming the context is that mc is starting to think that something they initially wouldn't think is beautiful is getting more beautiful in their eyes
    "I must never think that this is beautiful!"
     
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    Can't lower my standard of aesthetics...!

    审美 = aesthetics
    底线 = bottomline
     
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    yuri_moon Well-Known Member

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    Thank you sm to everyone!!!