这么费尽心思砌的模型
“give away such a painstakingly assembled model?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
难不成有人会把
“Could someone really”
这么 费尽心思 砌的模型
“give away such a painstakingly assembled model?”
给别人吗
“give away such a painstakingly assembled model?”
“Nobody parts with something this hard to make without a serious reason.”
In Chinese culture, the amount of thought and effort (xinsi/xinyi) invested into an object signifies the depth of interpersonal sentiment behind it.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to rack one's brains / to take painstaking trouble
A common four-character idiom describing intense thought, effort, and care put into achieving something.