曲里拐弯的话 我也没听懂
“They were complicated words. I didn't understand.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
他们就聊什么之乎者也 就是平时太爷聊的那些
“They talked about those complicated things, the kind Master always talks about.”
曲里拐弯的 话 我也没 听 懂
“They were complicated words. I didn't understand.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Everyday speakers in China frequently use colorful vernacular expressions like '曲里拐弯' to dismiss esoteric classical rhetoric as needlessly complicated.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
convoluted, full of twists and turns
A vivid colloquial idiom describing physical winding paths or indirect, obfuscating language.
I didn't understand either
Used to align with a companion by acknowledging shared confusion about what was spoken.
