原来因为 你是书香世家啊
“It's because they're intellectuals.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“No wonder they love arguing on the blackboard.”
原来 因为 你是 书香世家 啊
“It's because they're intellectuals.”
我请我父母过来 过渡一下 这样我们也有
“I'll ask my parents to come help. That way, we'll have ample time”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Chinese culture, coming from a family of scholars or educators carries high social prestige and is believed to instill specific habits, manners, and intellectual temperaments.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
a scholarly family; a family with an intellectual pedigree
A respectful, slightly literary four-character idiom frequently used in spoken Chinese to compliment someone's cultural upbringing.
so it turns out it was because
Useful conversational connector to mark a sudden realization or discovery of an underlying cause.
Marks realization and adds a friendly, teasing exclamation to the revelation.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“You claim to be from a scholarly family,”
“Coming from a scholarly family,”
“I was born into a scholarly family.”
“comes from a scholarly family, dignified in character,”
“comes from a scholarly family, dignified in character,”
“This is where you lived as a kid? Yeah.”