你要这么说的话 能有几个人写得比你好呀
“If you put it that way, no one's better than you.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“just not as good as I am. So, she quit.”
你要这么说的话 能有几个人写得 比你好 呀
“If you put it that way, no one's better than you.”
干脆都别写了
“Everyone should give up.”
“You are setting the bar too high because you are already one of the best.”
Using a rhetorical question to dismiss someone's excessive standards is a common Chinese politeness strategy to deliver high praise indirectly.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
if you put it that way; if that's the case
A very common conversational transition used to reframe an argument based on the premise the other person just provided.
hardly anyone; very few people (rhetorical: how many could there be?)
Used as a rhetorical device to emphasize that an occurrence or trait is exceptionally rare.
Softens the rhetorical question and adds a warm, friendly, conversational lilt.
