你个子那么矮了 对我颈椎不好
“it might be bad for my neck as you are so short.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
不是嫌你矮 我就是觉得
“I didn't mean that. I just thought”
你个子那么矮了 对我 颈椎不好
“it might be bad for my neck as you are so short.”
好 那下次 你跪着跟我说话 换我颈椎不好
“All right, next time you can talk to me on your knees and it will be bad for my neck instead.”
“Looking down at you literally gives me a sore neck, shorty.”
Height difference ('身高差') is a popular trope in contemporary Chinese romance; teasing each other about height is a conventional way to demonstrate intimacy.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
short in stature
Standard spoken collocation referring to someone's short height.
bad for one's cervical spine / bad for the neck
Modern colloquial hyperbole used jokingly when having to look down frequently.
Emphasizes the excessive degree of shortness as a realized state causing the humorous consequence.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“what's wrong with lowering ourselves a bit?”
“become this small? Alright, I misunderstood you.”
“Your back is bad, so don't work too much.”
“Didn't you notice that?”
“Then I'll write 2cm shorter than me.”
“Don't I want to hold my head high?”