又贵又不卫生 哪有自己家里做得好啊
“is expensive and not hygienic. How can it compare to home cooking?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我跟他好好说 说不定他就答应了呢 出去吃
“I'll talk to him again. Maybe he'll agree. Eating out”
又贵又不卫生 哪有 自己 家里 做得好 啊
“is expensive and not hygienic. How can it compare to home cooking?”
我可以多做一点带过去 放他冰箱里
“I can make extra food, bring it over, and put it in his fridge,”
“Eating out is a total waste when I can show love by cooking better food at home.”
Older Chinese generations often view home cooking as the ultimate expression of familial devotion, hygiene, and financial prudence compared to eating out.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
both expensive and unhygienic
A common paired conjunction structure (又...又...) used to stack negative attributes against commercial dining.
how can there be / nowhere near as good as
A rhetorical device used in spoken Chinese to strongly dismiss a comparison.
Reinforces the rhetorical conviction, asserting that home-cooked food is undeniably superior.
