可是哪有那么容易啊
“But it's not easy.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Everyone will look up to you. No doubt.”
可是 哪有那么容易 啊
“But it's not easy.”
各位听众 今年春运将正式启动
“(Attention.) (This year's travel rush has begun.)”
“You make it sound so simple, but you have no idea how hard it actually is for me.”
Chinese speakers often downplay compliments or optimistic forecasts about their success to prevent loss of face if they fail and to reflect modest realism.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
how could it be that easy / it is not that simple
A highly frequent colloquial rhetorical question used to temper unrealistic optimism.
Softens the rhetorical question while adding a lingering sigh of exasperation and vulnerability.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“it's not that easy.”
“It's not that simple.”
“If you could get what you want so easily,”
“but how could good things be made so easily? Right?”
“doesn't happen that easily.”