可是现在是白天
“But it's daytime now.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
看流星
“Watching shooting stars?”
可是 现在 是 白天
“But it's daytime now.”
“I know there are shooting stars in the daytime.”
“Are you out of your mind? You can't see meteors in broad daylight.”
In Chinese youth dramas, one partner often plays the role of the grounded realist counterbalancing the other's dreamy, unrealistic romanticism.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
but / however
Used to challenge an assumption or state an obvious counter-fact.
it is daytime right now
A plain descriptive chunk used to state current time of day as an obstacle.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“In broad daylight, you're giving me a heart attack?”
“In broad daylight. Exactly.”
“But people were coming and going during the day.”
“Even on a bright, sunny day like this,”
“You're bad. It's broad daylight!”
“Giving my husband the eye, huh?”
“I came to apologize for what happened earlier today.”
“closed so tightly during the day?”