但是你凭空建一座城 本身就是吃螃蟹啊
“But building a city from scratch is an adventurous thing.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Do we need to be the first to try it?”
但是你 凭空 建一座城 本身就是 吃螃蟹 啊
“But building a city from scratch is an adventurous thing.”
你造城没有钱
“Building a city without money is even more like it.”
“You are taking a crazy gamble that nobody has ever pulled off before.”
In contemporary Chinese reform discourse, 'eating crab' honors brave innovators, but here it is flipped to emphasize the extreme peril of doing something unproven.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
out of nowhere / out of thin air
Used to emphasize that something lacks any solid foundation, resources, or factual basis.
to be the first to venture / to be a pioneer
Derives from Lu Xun's quote admiring the first person brave enough to eat a crab; refers to pioneering hazardous innovations.
Heightens urgency and emphasizes the self-evident danger of the statement.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“He made his own mess. Let him deal with it.”
“Say something. You started this mess.”
“It's all my own doing.”
“For a city to develop, it needs to have its own...”
“But fate was cruel.”