这个人 没那么容易倒下的
“He's not someone who goes down that easily.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
妈妈认识他太久了
“I've known him for a long time.”
这个人 没那么容易 倒下的
“He's not someone who goes down that easily.”
“That doesn't sound like something a doctor would say.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Chinese parents often use absolute assertions of personal resilience to soothe a child's anxiety during crises.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
not that easy; unlikely to happen
Commonly used in daily spoken Chinese to downplay a worry or dismiss an exaggerated concern.
to collapse, break down, or succumb to illness/adversity
Can refer both literally to falling down physically and metaphorically to being defeated by adversity.
Functions at the end of the clause to add strong conviction and certainty to the statement.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I'm not that easy to kill.”
“it's not that simple.”
“They're average.”
“if you fall, they help you up.”
“He struggled for three minutes after falling to the ground.”
“as if struck by lightning.”