就算再好的鼻子 也要给你闻废了
“even the best nose will no longer work.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
就你这个闻法
“If you smell like this,”
就算 再好的鼻子 也要 给你 闻废了
“even the best nose will no longer work.”
待会儿去柴房 闻闻柴火味
“Go to the woodshed and smell the firewood”
“Cut it out, you're sniffing way too much and looking ridiculous.”
In spoken Chinese, attaching '废' (discarded/useless) to body parts or objects vividly exaggerates fatigue or wear and tear caused by excessive activity.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
even if it were the most... it would still...
Used to set up a hypothetical extreme condition to emphasize an inevitable negative result.
ruined by over-sniffing
A colloquial combination of an action verb plus '废' (ruined/disabled) to exaggerate damaging something through overuse.
Marks the completed state of being ruined or exhausted, adding punch to the hyperbole.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I've already fixed your nose. You're welcome.”
“The hound's nose picked it up again. Coming.”
“power outages. I almost got food up my nose.”
“Your nose works pretty well. You got up as soon as you smelled the food.”
“But the man spoke with such detail that it was hard to tell truth from lies.”
“We've taken a beating over a missing case that hasn't even been filed. And now you say don't back out, tell me how we move forward.”