我哪懂什么风水啊
“I don't know anything about feng shui.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
还研究风水呢
“you also study feng shui?”
我哪 懂什么风水 啊
“I don't know anything about feng shui.”
这不是开了个会所 买点书撑撑门面吗
“I run this club, so I bought a few books just to keep up appearances.”
“Don't take me for an expert; I just bought these to look good.”
In Chinese business culture, setting up cultural or scholarly objects like Feng Shui books or calligraphy is a common way to display refinement and build prestige (撑门面) even without personal expertise.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
how would (I) understand / not know at all
A rhetorical pattern used to emphatically deny expertise or knowledge.
to keep up appearances; to put on a facade
Used when doing or buying something purely to look impressive or respectable to outsiders.
Softens the rhetorical question and gives it a friendly, conversational tone.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“The f-feng shui here is bad.”
“I was just flipping through his feng shui book earlier,”
“and the stele pavilions nearby.”
“we can also help you look at the feng shui”
“please help us check the feng shui.”
“I was the one who assessed its Feng Shui.”