真是让属下好找啊
“was so hard for me to find.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你这个地方
“This place of yours”
真是 让 属下 好找 啊
“was so hard for me to find.”
若不是外面有人带路
“If someone hadn't led the way outside,”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Using 'shuxia' (subordinate) instead of 'I' explicitly reinforces the speaker's lower rank and submissive duty toward the superior.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
quite an effort to search for
Here '好' acts as an intensifier meaning 'very much' or 'a long time', modifying the effort taken to locate someone.
Softens the exclamatory statement and conveys a sigh of relief mixed with deferential emotion.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“You were hard to find.”
“I've been looking for you.”
“This is truly hard to come by.”
“I've had such a hard time finding you!”
“Actually, she did. Let me find them for you. Alright.”
“I searched all night and actually managed to find it.”