他要是有朋友 也不至于闲得无聊
“If he'd had friends, he wouldn't have been bored enough to do that stupid thing.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
刘小枫的朋友呢
“What about Liu Xiaofeng's friends?”
他 要是有 朋友 也不至于 闲得无聊
“If he'd had friends, he wouldn't have been bored enough to do that stupid thing.”
“he wouldn't have been bored enough to do that stupid thing. He'd been unsociable since childhood.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Chinese society, someone being isolated or having no friends is often viewed with suspicion or seen as a root cause of deviant behavior.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
would not go so far as to; not to the point of
Use this structure to refute an extreme outcome by showing it is an exaggerated consequence.
bored out of one's mind
A common spoken phrase describing having nothing productive to do, often leading to mischievous behavior.
