我们这次损失可大了
“We suffered a huge loss this time.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
话可不能这么说呀
“You can't say that.”
我们这次 损失可大了
“We suffered a huge loss this time.”
你二伯父 本来都要 当上吏部侍郎了
“Your Second Uncle was originally about to become Vice Minister of Personnel.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In traditional Chinese culture, one family member's political setback is experienced as a major collective catastrophe for the entire clan.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
the loss is truly huge
Use '可...了' to emphatically intensify an adjective in conversational Mandarin, expressing deep personal impact.
Functions together with the intensifier '可' to stress the extreme degree of the situation.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Anyway, it's a huge loss.”
“If we both lose in the end,”
“The loss for our China is just too great.”
“Now we're changing the whole focus. Isn't that too risky?”
“Even though I did lose quite a bit tonight,”
“You've lost a lot of benefits.”