没有 元先生 你过奖了
“You're too kind, Mr. Yuan.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“You're prettier than the photo your dad showed me.”
没有 元先生 你 过奖了
“You're too kind, Mr. Yuan.”
你叫我元锋就好了
“You can call me Yuan Feng.”
“Thank you for the compliment, but let us keep things respectful and not too overly familiar just yet.”
In traditional Chinese etiquette, accepting a compliment directly with 'thank you' can sometimes appear arrogant; deflecting it with phrases like '过奖了' signals good manners and humility.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
you flatter me / you overpraise me
A classic, essential polite formula used to respond modestly whenever someone pays you a compliment.
Marks the completion of an evaluation and softens the assertion into a courteous conventional expression.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Y-You're not Yuanyuan.”
“Let alone a tiny Yuanlongli case. Right?”
“even He Jingyuan goes against my orders.”
“but his main force is intact,”
“It's a masterpiece by Master Buquan!”
“no longer exists in this world.”