显得我们来得都有点多余了
“It almost makes us feel like we came for nothing.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Ms. Lin and Coach were really quick to take action.”
显得我们来得都有点 多余了
“It almost makes us feel like we came for nothing.”
不多余
“Not at all.”
“You guys handled everything so fast that we didn't even need to be here, good job!”
In Chinese social interactions, speakers frequently lower their own perceived usefulness or contribution as a modest, polite way to magnify praise for others.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to seem, to appear, to look (as a result of something)
Used to describe how an external circumstance or action makes someone or something look in comparison.
superfluous, unnecessary, redundant
Commonly used in conversational Chinese to express feeling out of place or unneeded.
Indicates a newly realized state or situation resulting from the context.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“we had no choice but to take that risk.”
“It's only our fault we got there too late.”
“Maybe we're overthinking this.”
“That makes the rest of us look lazy.”
“Too bad we're one step too late.”
“That's too much! It's not.”