你说不定踩的是狗屎还是狗屎运
“you never know if you're stepping into dog crap or good luck.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
所以这个人哪
“So, with people,”
你 说不定 踩 的 是 狗屎 还是 狗屎运
“you never know if you're stepping into dog crap or good luck.”
都不一定的事
“Everything's uncertain.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Colloquial Chinese plays on the superstitious contrast between stepping on literal filth (bad luck) and hitting 'dog shit luck' (pure, undeserved good fortune).
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
perhaps, maybe, there is no telling
Used before a clause to express uncertainty or hypothesize about unexpected possibilities.
dumb luck, serendipitous fortune
A highly colloquial slang term used to describe someone getting unexpectedly lucky by sheer chance.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Even your dumb luck keeps stacking up now.”
“I'm worried you'll be left holding the mess,”
“You'd better not be a dog.”
“You are so lucky.”
“just to feed it to the dogs?”
“All bastards. Haven't you been beaten before?”