又不像男人的心似的
“Unlike a man's feelings,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
可我们赶到染坊的时候 也没见着那块绣布啊
“But when we got to the dye workshop, we didn't see that cloth.”
又 不像 男人的心 似的
“Unlike a man's feelings,”
总不能眨眨眼
“it couldn't just disappear in the blink of an eye.”
“A cloth doesn't have legs or change whimsically like a man does; someone must have taken it.”
Traditional Chinese colloquial culture frequently compares fickle, unpredictable, or sudden disappearances to the unreliable affections of men.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
it's not as if / unlike
Used to draw an ironic or contrasting parallel between two things.
a man's heart; men's fickle nature
A common idiom/trope referring to emotional inconstancy or unreliability.
Affixed to noun phrases to denote 'resembling' or 'as if', often with vivid colloquial imagery.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“guys can be more petty than girls.”
“will make you less hell-bent all the time”
“That's pretty stand-up of him.”
“He doesn't seem the least bit unsettled.”
“This doesn't look like me.”
“he's already not very manly.”