这曲子 究竟有什么好听的
“what's so great about this tune?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
娘
“Mother,”
这曲子 究竟 有什么好听的
“what's so great about this tune?”
我完全听不出来曲调
“I can't pick out the melody at all.”
“I find this music completely dull and don't get why everyone acts like it's amazing.”
Within the domestic sphere, children can speak candidly to their parents, shedding the polite pretenses expected in public high-culture appreciation.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
what on earth is there / what actually is
Use this rhetorical pattern to press for an underlying reason when feeling skeptical or perplexed.
what is so good to listen to about it
A colloquial rhetorical structure expressing dismissal or lack of appreciation for an auditory experience.
Nominalizes the phrase to create a rhetorical question emphasizing skepticism.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“The tune you heard that night. Had you heard it before?”
“I just want to hear her play music again.”
“It's the most beautiful piece in the world.”
“Maybe he's a customer who came to listen to the music.”
“At a time like this, you still want to listen to a song?”
“And that's when the now-iconic song”