掐指一算 出了这么大的事 是吧
“I'd bet after something this big happened,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“you got the notice too, to attend an emergency meeting?”
掐指一算 出了这么大的事 是吧
“I'd bet after something this big happened,”
今晚肯定是个不眠夜啊
“it's going to be an all-nighter tonight.”
“You do not need to be a psychic to know things have completely hit the fan.”
Derived from Daoist divination techniques, this phrase is widely used colloquially to humorously frame common-sense deductions as predictive wizardry.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
reckon, figure out, divine by counting on one's fingers
Used humorously or casually in conversation to imply an obvious deduction or prediction.
such a huge incident happened
Common expression to refer to an unexpected crisis or scandal without immediately naming it.
Solicits confirmation from the interlocutor while conveying an assumption the speaker already feels confident about.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Let me do the math.”
“Let me guess.”
“it's just a flick of the finger. Nothing too serious.”
“What a scheme.”
“you better think twice before I lift this finger. Understood?”
“can predict everything.”