也不是什么好东西 又糙又难吃
“It's no good anyway, rough and tastes terrible.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
好像是叫燕黍
“I think it's something called Yan millet.”
也不是 什么 好东西 又糙又难吃
“It's no good anyway, rough and tastes terrible.”
“Anyway, we don't grow it here in Great Xia. Even if we did, it'd be for feeding pigs.”
“Their food is awful, and our land is far superior.”
In traditional Chinese culture, staple grains directly reflect civilizational wealth; coarse grains are associated with poverty and hardship compared to fine rice or wheat.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
nothing good either; not worth much
A common spoken idiom used to belittle the value or quality of an item or person.
coarse and unpalatable
A parallel '又...又...' structure used to describe poor food texture and flavor.