许是昨夜喝多了酒 才摆不直腰
“Must have drunk too much last night. I can't straighten up.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
这篾条快要被你扎出窟窿了
“You're about to poke holes in these bamboo strips.”
许是 昨夜 喝多了酒 才摆不直腰
“Must have drunk too much last night. I can't straighten up.”
见过王妃
“Your Highness.”
“I'm just hungover, not nervous or hiding anything.”
Blaming excessive drinking is a culturally conventional, socially acceptable way in Chinese culture to excuse clumsy behavior without revealing true feelings.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
perhaps; maybe
A literary and historical spoken equivalent of 'maybe' (也许), commonly heard in period dramas to soften assertions.
had too much to drink
A natural way to state that one drank excessive alcohol.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“She drank too much. She's in bed now.”
“You showed up this afternoon already looking half gone.”
“So when you are drunk, you are like this?”
“that he drank too much last night and was still drunk this morning, so he caused trouble in the practice room.”
“I could do nothing but drown my sorrows in liquor,”
“I only had a little to drink. It's not that serious, right?”