也算是祖上坟头冒青烟了
“is like hitting the jackpot for your ancestors.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“With your background, to have made it this far”
也 算是 祖上坟头冒青烟 了
“is like hitting the jackpot for your ancestors.”
不过就你这事儿啊
“But regarding what you've done,”
“You really hit the jackpot considering where you came from, so don't get too arrogant.”
Traditional Chinese geomancy (feng shui) holds that purple or green smoke billowing from ancestral graves foretells great fortune or high officialdom for descendants; today, it is used colloquially to tease someone for an absurd stroke of luck.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
an extraordinary stroke of luck attributed to ancestral blessings
Use this colloquial idiom humorously or teasingly to describe someone experiencing an unexpectedly massive breakthrough despite ordinary qualifications.
can be considered as; might as well be viewed as
A useful spoken discourse marker to frame a subjective evaluation as a reasonable concession.
Signifies a completed change of state or a confirmed evaluative conclusion.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“must mean my ancestors are watching over me.”
“and that is already a blessing from your ancestors.”
“a great blessing for our family.”
“I must be blessed by my ancestors”
“[People's Government of Jinghai] Why did Gong Kaijiang always go to the cemetry?”
“Their ancestors committed the crime.”