他们怎么笑得出来的
“How can they still smile?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
也没这么多人
“nor were there this many people.”
他们 怎么笑得出来 的
“How can they still smile?”
夫人 你仔细看
“Ma'am, look closely.”
“It is unthinkable and inappropriate that they can smile given what is happening.”
In Chinese culture, emotional expression should match situational solemnity; showing amusement in grave contexts is viewed as unfeeling or shameless.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
able to laugh; to find it in oneself to laugh
Commonly used in rhetorical negatives or questions like 怎么笑得出来 to condemn inappropriate joy or composure during misfortune.
Used as part of the assertion structure to stress the action and state of laughing.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“How can you laugh at a time like this?”
“How can you still laugh?”
“and there weren't this many people. How can they smile?”