好死不死的 他出门崴了脚了你说
“but of all things, he had to go and sprain his ankle.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
本来约好了跟许总单挑
“I was supposed to play one-on-one with Mr. Xu,”
好死不死的 他出门崴了脚了 你说
“but of all things, he had to go and sprain his ankle.”
我说他认𪨊了 他还找理由不承认
“I think he chickened out, but he wouldn't admit it.”
“He obviously chickened out and used this convenient accident as an excuse.”
Backing down directly from a challenged one-on-one duel causes significant loss of face, so minor sudden mishaps are often viewed with suspicion as face-saving excuses.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
as ill luck would have it; of all the rotten luck
A highly colloquial northern phrase used to lament an extraordinarily bad coincidence or terrible timing.
can you believe it?; tell me what you think
Added at the end of an anecdote as a rhetorical appeal to invite the listener's shared disbelief.
Marks the completion of an event and underscores the sudden change of state.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Death? Bah! Stop saying such depressing things.”
“How could I bear to die before you do?”
“-May you die a terrible death! -Die a wretched death!”
“Neither alive nor dead.”
“and may I die a terrible death! Very well!”
“[Eight years ago, winter] He has to die, or all of us will.”