这闹哄哄的不好说
“It's too chaotic to have a real talk here.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
行 那我回家跟他说
“Sure. I'll bring it up when I get home.”
这 闹哄哄的 不好说
“It's too chaotic to have a real talk here.”
你现在不敢看我
“(You're afraid to look at me right now.)”
“I can't face you right now, so I'm blaming the crowd to get out of talking to you.”
Rather than directly refusing to talk, Chinese speakers often cite external environmental factors (noise, time, other people present) as a polite buffer to avoid awkward confrontations.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
noisy and chaotic / bustling with noise
An vivid ABB-pattern adjective used in spoken Chinese to complain about a loud, crowded environment.
inconvenient to talk about / hard to say for sure
Depending on context, it either means 'it's hard to predict' or 'it's awkward/inappropriate to discuss this right now'.
Attached after the ABB state adjective '闹哄哄' to turn it into a descriptive predicate explaining the current situation.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“just being stubborn and moody.”
“just being stubborn and moody.”
“Now it has become a complete uproar.”
“it'll be unpleasant.”
“Lying is not good.”
“This is outrageous!”