扔了也怪可惜的 我想着就
“It seemed like a waste to throw it out.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
买东西人家送的
“The store gave it away for free.”
扔了也 怪可惜的 我 想着 就
“It seemed like a waste to throw it out.”
你不是老做那炒茄条 看你往里放这个吗
“I figured you always put this in your stir-fried eggplant.”
“I hate wasting perfectly good free things, so make use of it.”
Avoiding waste (kexi) is a core domestic value across Chinese households, where free gifts or leftovers are repurposed rather than discarded.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
quite a waste / quite a pity
Used in spoken Mandarin to express reluctance to discard or waste useful resources.
was thinking / figured
Prefaces personal reasoning or tentative intentions in conversational contexts.