暖丰县就这么点个地方 那好事不出门
“Nuanfeng County is such a small place. Good news doesn't travel,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Who told you that? People at the electronics factory said so. Well...”
暖丰县 就这么点 个地方 那 好事不出门
“Nuanfeng County is such a small place. Good news doesn't travel,”
“but this kind of thing spreads fast.”
“This town is tiny, so naturally bad news spread everywhere in no time.”
Chinese speakers often quote only the first half of a well-known paired saying (like '好事不出门'), expecting the listener to instantly understand the unsaid second half ('坏事传千里' - bad news spreads thousands of miles).
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
such a tiny place
A spoken phrase used to emphasize how compact or tight-knit a town, neighborhood, or venue is.
good deeds don't travel beyond the door
The first half of the famous idiom '好事不出门，坏事传千里', routinely cut off when implying bad news travels fast.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“don't leave Nuanfeng County. Okay. We'll come find you if we have more questions.”
“You know the situation in the county.”
“That's the Princess of Fuchang County. What if someone comes looking for her?”
“Later, the county went to great lengths”
“no, in the whole Qingping County— you can't find another. ♪ But in the crowd once and again I look for her in vain ♪”
“But the county urged us many times. This is a special case.”