这不是废话吗
“That's bullshit.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
只是心思不在这儿 虚度年华 埋没了自己
“but they're just not interested in it and thus waste their time and their talent.”
这不是 废话 吗
“That's bullshit.”
不喜欢 不痴缠 那不叫有天分 即便偶有灵光
“If you don't like it or obsess over it, that's not talent. Even if you get things right sometimes—”
“Obviously, that goes without saying!”
While polite indirectness is standard in formal Chinese, close friends frequently use blunt phrases like 'feihua' (nonsense/rubbish) affectionately or emphatically without causing offense.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
Isn't that obvious? / That goes without saying.
A highly colloquial, somewhat blunt rhetorical phrase used among close acquaintances to indicate something is totally self-evident.
Forms a rhetorical question to underline the self-evident nature of the statement.
