算命的早就说我有九条命 死不了吧
“The fortune teller said I have nine lives. I won't die, right?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Aren't we all fine sitting on this boat?”
算命的 早就 说我有 九条命 死不了 吧
“The fortune teller said I have nine lives. I won't die, right?”
来试试
“Give it a try.”
“Don't worry, luck is on my side and I am not dying anytime soon.”
Invoking a fortune teller's prophecy is a traditional Chinese conversational trope used to inject humor, reassure peers, or project resilience amid danger.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
fortune teller
A colloquial nominal phrase commonly used in daily conversation to refer to a fortune teller.
nine lives
Used metaphorically to describe someone who repeatedly survives lethal dangers or hardships.
won't die / not fatal
A colloquial potential complement phrase used to shrug off danger or minor injuries casually.
Softens the assertion into a semi-rhetorical, lighthearted supposition to comfort the listener.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I have nine lives.”
“The fortune tellers all say”
“You're quite lucky.”
“I have nine lives.”
“Consider yourself lucky.”
“did you study fortune-telling or something?”