这箱子打开 里边就这么几块破石头
“when I opened the box, there were just some broken stones inside,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
谁承想
“Who would have thought,”
这箱子 打开 里边 就这么 几块 破石头
“when I opened the box, there were just some broken stones inside,”
还有大爹收藏的那个善本
“and that rare book Uncle collected.”
“We've been cheated—where are the real valuables that were supposed to be here?”
Attaching '破' before common nouns is a quintessential colloquial way to express contempt or extreme dissatisfaction with the quality of an object.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
who would have thought
An idiomatic phrase used to express shock at an unexpected turn of events.
worthless rocks / lousy stones
Prefixing '破' to a noun disparagingly indicates that the item is junk or of negligible value.