都倒数第一了 还挺好?
“Last place and still fine?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
也挺好的
“Not so bad.”
都 倒数第一 了 还挺好 ?
“Last place and still fine?”
你说
“Tell me…”
“Are you out of your mind? We are dead last, there is nothing good about this.”
While Chinese speakers often use polite euphemisms to ease failure, close peers will cut through face-saving euphemisms with sharp rhetorical questions.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
ranked dead last; bottom of the list
Commonly used to describe the very last place in academic exams, competitions, or team performance evaluations.
already..., yet still...
A rhetorical grammatical pattern used to criticize someone for holding an inappropriate attitude given an extreme reality.
Emphasizes the established, unchangeable reality of being in last place.