哪有那么容易的
“it's not that easy.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
爹
“Father,”
哪有那么容易 的
“it's not that easy.”
“Ever since the last air raid, I can't even stand the sound of horse hooves.”
“You have no idea what you're talking about; reality is far more brutal than you think.”
Chinese parents often counter their children's youthful idealism with sobering doses of harsh reality to protect them from danger.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
how could it be that easy / it's nowhere near that simple
A very common rhetorical rebuttal used to reject someone's overly optimistic assumption.
Affirms the speaker's conviction and softens the rhetorical sharpness into an established fact.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“But it's not easy.”
“It's not that simple.”
“doesn't happen that easily.”
“but how could good things be made so easily? Right?”
“it should be quite easy.”
“If you could get what you want so easily,”