你怎么就挺好了
“How can you call this perfect?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
多好
“It's perfect.”
你 怎么就 挺好 了
“How can you call this perfect?”
你这样就满足了
“Is this really enough for you?”
“How can you be so easily satisfied? This is nowhere near good enough.”
In contemporary Chinese domestic dynamics, a lack of striving (lack of 'shang jinxin') is often criticized, as complacency is seen as a threat to family mobility.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
how could you possibly / why on earth would you
Expresses strong bafflement or critical disagreement with an attitude or action taken by the interlocutor.
pretty good / quite all right
Common evaluation indicating that something meets expectations or is satisfactory.
Functions as a marker indicating a settled evaluative status that the speaker is actively contesting.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Everything will be fine.”
“Then how did he suddenly get better?”
“he's recovering well recently.”
“By all accounts there should have been some improvement.”
“have you been recovering well recently?”
“I'm recovering well— fit as a fiddle now.”