- 可能犯太岁吧 - 该不会水逆？
“- It's Jupiter. - It's in retrograde.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
- 操 - 妈的 怎么那么倒楣啊？
“[sighing] Fuck. We're the unlucky ones.”
- 可 能 犯太岁 吧 - 该不会 水逆 ？
“- It's Jupiter. - It's in retrograde.”
- 那怎么办？ - 去吃猪脚面线
“- What now? - Let's eat something.”
“You're having ridiculously bad luck, maybe the universe is just against you today.”
Offending Tai Sui represents severe bad luck in Daoist folk tradition, which in regions like Taiwan is symbolically washed away by eating pork trotter vermicelli.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to clash with Tai Sui (the Grand Duke Jupiter); to be cursed with bad luck during one's zodiac year
Commonly invoked in Chinese culture whenever someone runs into a string of bizarre or relentless misfortune.
Mercury retrograde
A popular modern loan-concept widely adopted by Chinese youth to explain tech glitches, miscommunications, or general bad luck.
Softens the assertion into a tentative conjecture or speculation.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“was likely the work of Taiyin, the voice-keeper before me.”
“kids turning twelve face bad luck.”
“I'm afraid Heaven itself will strike us down.”
“I feared it would bring disaster.”
“You didn't poison it, did you?”
“Why is Mr. He's episode taking so long this time?”