寻常之物怕也入不了眼
“Ordinary items might not impress you.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我知常家收藏颇丰
“I know your family has fine collections.”
寻常之物 怕 也 入不了眼
“Ordinary items might not impress you.”
冒婆婆
“Nanny Mao.”
“Your standards are so high that anything less than exceptional would embarrass me.”
Elevating the other party's standards while deprecating ordinary offerings is a classic ritualized flattery tactic in traditional Chinese communication.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
ordinary things / commonplace items
A formal, literary expression used to describe mundane or low-value items.
fail to catch someone's eye / be deemed unworthy
Idiomatic phrase indicating that someone with refined taste will look down upon something inferior.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“but completely clueless about everyday things.”
“Everything here is unpresentable and vulgar.”
“look very suspicious.”
“he's obviously not a good person.”
“You can tell at a glance she's no good.”
“Fearing I'd alert the enemy”