那石头 你真把它养开花了
“you really managed to make the stone bloom?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
对了
“By the way,”
那石头 你真把它 养开花 了
“you really managed to make the stone bloom?”
你想看吗 想啊
“Want to see it? Of course.”
“You really pulled off something so miraculous? I have to see this for myself.”
Making a stone or iron tree bloom is a classic Chinese idiom representing an extraordinary, miraculous, or near-impossible achievement.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to nurture/cultivate something until it blossoms
A resultative complement combining 'to cultivate' (yang) and 'to bloom' (kaihua), commonly applied to plants or poetically to inanimate objects.
did you really [do something to it]
A conversational 'ba'-construction used to express mild disbelief and curiosity regarding someone's action on an object.
Marks the completion of a change of state, highlighting the surprising result of the stone blossoming.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I already have so many colorful stones.”
“it can only follow the stones.”
“I mean… it's a stone building— how did it burn like that?”
“Looking for the rock is my only hope now.”
“You should have gone and found some pebbles.”
“What I mean is, you accept this stone now,”