你不挑剔 单了这么多年了
“Not picky? You've been single for years.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你不要在那儿乱说
“Don't make it sound like that.”
你 不挑剔 单了这么多年 了
“Not picky? You've been single for years.”
对了
“By the way,”
“Come on, stop lying to yourself—if you weren't picky, you'd have found someone by now.”
Among close peers or relatives in China, commenting frankly on someone's extended singlehood and high standards is common conversational banter rather than a social taboo.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
picky; hypercritical; fastidious
Commonly applied to people who have unrealistically high standards, especially regarding food, work, or partner selection.
to have been single / unpartnered
Slang abbreviation of '单身' (single), used conversationally to denote duration of being without a romantic partner.
Occurring at the end of the clause, it emphasizes the prolonged duration of the current ongoing state of being single.
