殿下最近重了不少 想来是饭菜可口
“Your Highness, you've gained some weight. The food must have been delicious.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
劳驾
“I need your help.”
殿下最近 重了不少 想来是 饭菜可口
“Your Highness, you've gained some weight. The food must have been delicious.”
“Perhaps you need to get more exercise.”
“You have definitely put on weight lately; you're feeling much heavier to carry or hold.”
Rather than bluntly saying someone got fat, Chinese speakers often frame weight gain positively around enjoying good food (饭菜可口) or being well cared for.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
gained quite a bit of weight / become noticeably heavier
A common way to describe someone getting heavier without directly using the potentially sensitive word 胖 (fat).
presumably / it must be that
Use this literary connective at the start of a clause to make a gentle, plausible deduction.
the meals are delicious and appetizing
A polite, four-character idiom to compliment food or explain someone's healthy appetite.
Marks a change of state, highlighting the noticeable recent increase in weight.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Will Your Highness be home for dinner today?”
“Your Highness learned to shift blame.”
“Someone as noble as you wouldn't understand.”
“Great-grandfather hasn't eaten anything at all.”
“He just relaxes briefly.”
“That's not right, Your Highness.”