要是我得了癌症怎么办 我呸呸呸 不可能
“What if I get cancer? Pooh! It's impossible.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
万一得大病呢
“What if I get seriously sick?”
要是 我 得了 癌症 怎么办 我呸 呸呸 不可能
“What if I get cancer? Pooh! It's impossible.”
咱俩身体都这么好 再说每年单位都会 组织体检
“We're both in good health. Besides, we have physical examinations every year.”
“I'm genuinely terrified of getting sick, please reassure me that we will be okay.”
In Chinese folk belief, uttering fatal illnesses or death out loud can invoke bad luck. Uttering 'pei pei pei' mimics spitting to annul the curse.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
What if... happens?
A common conversational template to introduce anxiety-inducing hypothetical scenarios.
Phooey! / Knock on wood! (verbal spitting to ward off bad luck)
An onomatopoeia used in spoken Chinese immediately after uttering an inauspicious or taboo statement.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I know what I must do.”
“What would I do then?”
“What do you think I should do?”
“What should I do?”
“Then what am I supposed to do? What am I supposed to do?”
“What else can we do? What should we do now?”