我人缘也没那么差吧
“I'm not that unpopular.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
下次别人也举着斧子追你呢
“next time someone else will be chasing you with an axe.”
我人缘也 没那么差 吧
“I'm not that unpopular.”
我说过我会找合适的理由
“I said I would find a proper reason”
“Come on, nobody hates me enough to chase me with an axe.”
Social harmony and likability are central social values in Chinese culture, often invoked when evaluating someone's general reputation.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
relations with people; popularity
Commonly used in daily spoken Chinese to describe how well-liked someone is socially.
not that bad
A typical litotes structure used to soften statements and sound modest or playful.
Softens the rhetorical assertion into a gentle appeal for agreement.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Nothing, she's actually doing great.”
“He's decent and low-key.”
“Aren't you just so envious of me for having no bad reviews?”
“Isn't this too cold?”
“Oh, this isn't so bad, eh?”
“Goes to show I'm a decent person.”