你这句话说得好 非亲非故
“Well said. He has no relatives or friends.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“I can't again and again.”
你这句 话说 得好 非亲非故
“Well said. He has no relatives or friends.”
“He's not related to us. Why did he help us save Great Master?”
“Exactly, we have no real claim on that person, so we cannot expect them to stick their neck out for us.”
Chinese interpersonal norms heavily prioritize blood and friendship ties; asking high-risk favors of someone 'feiqin feigu' breaches social expectation and is rarely justifiable.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
neither kin nor friend; unrelated strangers
A very common four-character idiom used when questioning why someone should help, or explaining lack of obligation.
well said / you made a great point
Spoken phrase used to validate an interlocutor's argument before building on it.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“you're not even that close.”
“But if you are not closely related,”
“He's not related to us. Why did he help us save Great Master?”
“You weren't related to her,”
“I mean, why would she try to matchmake at this point of time?”
“Certainly you would put it in a nicer way. That makes sense.”