挺好的 吃吃喝喝的
“It was fine. Just eating and drinking.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
跟你的警察朋友们聊得怎么样
“How was your chat with your cop friends?”
挺好的 吃吃喝喝 的
“It was fine. Just eating and drinking.”
没什么特别的事
“Nothing special.”
“Don't worry, we just hung out and nothing serious happened.”
Socializing over food and drink is often used to establish ties, but can also be used as a convenient excuse to mask substantive dealings.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
pretty good / quite fine
Standard conversational response to inquiries about how an event or situation went.
feasting / casual wining and dining
An AABB reduplication pattern used to characterize casual, leisurely socializing without serious business.
Placed at the end of the phrase to nominalize and soften the descriptive tone.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“That's great. Congratulations.”
“Pretty good. Do you want to eat? Look what I brought you today.”
“It's fine. We both get what we want.”
“Yes. Did you work late last night?”
“It's nice. Suits you.”
“I'm really fine. Don't worry about me. I'm perfectly well.”