长得好像一张麻将牌一样
“He looked just like a mahjong tile.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
这么粗
“and his waist was this thick.”
长得 好像 一张 麻将牌 一样
“He looked just like a mahjong tile.”
那有一次呢 大家一起在大排档吃宵夜
“One day, we were having a late-night snack.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Mahjong is ubiquitous in Chinese social culture, leading people to humorously describe flat or blocky facial structures as looking like a mahjong tile.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
looks like; resembles
A highly common spoken formula to describe visual resemblance in people or objects.
mahjong tile
Colloquially used in Chinese banter to poke fun at someone with a remarkably square or flat face.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“You're acting like this again.”
“Do I really look like”
“like a martial hero.”
“Their builds are very similar.”
“That looks just like their description.”
“someone who looks”