就算我搞砸了及笄礼 无非就是名声再差一些
“If the ceremony falls apart, my name suffers a little, nothing new.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Can you just show some grace? What would grace accomplish?”
就算 我 搞砸了 及笄礼 无非就是 名声再差一些
“If the ceremony falls apart, my name suffers a little, nothing new.”
“Grandmother will never bring herself to give me away to anyone.”
“Go ahead and criticize me—I don't care about my reputation, and you can't touch me anyway.”
The 'Jiji Li' marked a young woman's adulthood and marriageability in ancient China; ruining it would traditionally destroy marriage prospects, making the speaker's defiance exceptionally bold.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
even if
Used to introduce a hypothetical worst-case scenario that the speaker is willing to disregard.
messed up / ruined
A highly colloquial expression used to describe botching an event, task, or plan.
nothing more than / merely
Employed to downplay the severity or importance of a consequence.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Her coming-of-age ceremony should also be decent, shouldn't it?”
“Without it,”
“Why hold a ceremony at all?”
“Making a scene at her coming-of-age ceremony”
“But the ceremony will go forward.”
“I was being ridiculous. I get it now.”