什么风把你给吹来了
“What brings you here today?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
这不是景少卿吗
“Vice Minister Jing.”
什么风把你给吹来了
“What brings you here today?”
这许久不见
“It has been quite some time.”
“You rarely come visit me; what business or trouble brings you here today?”
Using metaphors of nature like the wind to frame unexpected visits is a customary polite way to probe someone's agenda without being confrontational.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
what brings you here; what wind blew you here
A standard rhetorical greeting used to playfully greet an infrequent or surprising guest.
Marks the completion of the action and emphasizes the current fact of the person's arrival.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“What brings you here?”
“What brings you here?”
“What brings you here, sir?”
“What brings you here?”