不是同理心少得可怜吗
“Didn't you say I have pitifully little empathy?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
今天谢谢您
“thank you for today.”
不是 同理心 少得可怜 吗
“Didn't you say I have pitifully little empathy?”
对不起 我不应该那么说你
“I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said that.”
“Now you thank me? What happened to me having zero empathy?”
Quoting someone's exact derogatory remark back at them when proven wrong is a common, slightly ironic way in Chinese to restore dignity without causing total loss of face.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
empathy
A common modern psychological and interpersonal term referring to the ability to understand others' feelings.
pitifully little; scarce
A descriptive phrase structure '[Adjective] + 得可怜' used colloquially to emphasize an extreme shortage.
Forms a rhetorical question that prompts the listener to confront the contradiction in their past statement.
