这丫鬟长得还挺好的
“This maid is quite pretty.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
让她滚吧
“Tell her to get lost.”
这丫鬟长得 还挺 好的
“This maid is quite pretty.”
将军说滚
“The General told her to get lost.”
“It's a bit of a waste to cast her out when she looks so nice.”
In imperial China, 'yahuan' (bondmaids) were often treated as commodified domestic property whose personal fate depended on masters' whims.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
looks quite pretty / rather good-looking
A colloquial way to comment favorably on someone's physical appearance.
Affirms the speaker's subjective assessment and softens the assertion.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“It wouldn't be bad for you to be his little maid.”
“Can you lend me your maid's outfit?”
“What is your relationship with that maid?”
“and was like sisters with her personal maid.”
“The maid around me,”
“she looked like a little maid.”