你能比我眼界长多少
“How much broader is your vision than mine?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“You just went out to fight a war.”
你能比我眼界长多少
“How much broader is your vision than mine?”
你还真别说
“You'd be surprised.”
“Don't act like going to war makes you superior to me.”
In Chinese interpersonal disputes, challenging someone's claim of having seen the world (眼界) is a direct attack on their perceived social maturity and prestige.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to broaden one's horizons or gain worldly experience
Commonly used in spoken Chinese to describe gaining exposure to new things, often inverted or modified with comparative markers.
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“may be worse than I imagined.”
“That's a broad vision.”
“you can't compare to this.”
“I can't compare with that.”
“wasn't much better than mine.”
“is much more than you imagine.”