做人是不是有点可惜了
“Isn't it a shame you're a mortal?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你胆子这么大
“You've got quite the nerve.”
做人 是不是有点 可惜了
“Isn't it a shame you're a mortal?”
远山眉黛长
“Your brows stretch like hills.”
“You are far too extraordinary and daring to be just an ordinary person.”
Chinese flirtation often avoids direct praise, instead exaggerating traits humorously to create playful intimacy.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to live as a human / being a person
Literally refers to being human, often used playfully to contrast someone with supernatural or extraordinary beings.
isn't it a bit...
A standard softening frame used to pose rhetorical or teasing questions politely.
Signals an evaluative conclusion or change of state within the rhetorical question.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“go down the drain?”
“wouldn't it be a great pity?”
“What a pity.”
“Yeah, yeah. It's a bit of a pity.”
“Nothing to pity.”
“It's no pity.”