你说天底下怎么会有这种
“How can there be such a person”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“I could have made 3 hairpins for him.”
你说 天底下 怎么会有 这种
“How can there be such a person”
净给人添麻
“who just causes trouble...”
“Can you believe how ridiculous and unreasonable that person is?”
Using rhetorical questions starting with 'you say' (你说) serves to invite the listener into a shared moral alignment against troublesome outsiders.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
in the world; under the sun
Commonly used in spoken Chinese to emphasize astonishment or rhetorical exaggeration.
how could there be
A rhetorical formula used to express disbelief or indignation toward an absurd situation or person.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“(How can anyone in the world be so wicked?)”
“How can there be such a strange person?”
“how this could happen.”
“how can someone like you exist?”