马有什么好稀奇的
“What's so special about horses?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
那你喜欢什么 我喜欢马
“Then what do you like? I like horses.”
马 有什么好稀奇的
“What's so special about horses?”
到处都是 我喜欢骑马 马不会说话
“They're everywhere. I like riding horses. Horses can't talk,”
“Why horses of all things? They're totally ordinary.”
Phrasing disagreement as a rhetorical question ('What is so special about...') is a standard conversational tactic in Chinese to prompt the other person to justify their opinion.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
what's so special about it / nothing to make a fuss about
Use this rhetorical question to express skepticism or downplay something that seems unremarkable.
Asserts the descriptive claim and adds an evaluative, definitive tone to the rhetorical question.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“He was acting so weird.”
“ask you any strange questions?”
“Why did he act so weird?”
“What's so strange about this?”
“What's so unusual about this kind of thing?”