那蝴蝶太难养了 死了一大半了
“They were so hard to keep alive. More than half of them died.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
说有人要来看王采女的尸体 就把蝴蝶放进去
“She said if someone came to view Lady Wang's body, I should release the butterflies.”
那蝴蝶 太难养 了 死了 一大半 了
“They were so hard to keep alive. More than half of them died.”
你们要是再晚来几天 我也就没蝴蝶可以放了
“If you'd come a few days later, I'd have had none left to release.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
too difficult to raise or keep alive
Commonly used when talking about delicate pets, plants, or even children.
more than half; a large majority
Used in everyday speech to estimate a large portion of a whole without giving exact numbers.
The first 'le' pairs with 'tai' to express excessiveness, while the final 'le' indicates a change of state (the butterflies have now died).
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“That butterfly is so beautiful. Let's go to the second floor.”
“Seeing these butterfly specimens reminds me of the time”
“After its wings healed, it flew away on its own.”
“A butterfly? I thought it was a moth!”
“A sparrow can never fly to the top branch,”
“I'm not that easy to kill.”