破木头 天天当宝贝一样
“He treats that piece of wood like treasure.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
一早又出来弹琴
“Come on. Playing his guqin in the morning again.”
破 木头 天天 当宝贝 一样
“He treats that piece of wood like treasure.”
嬷嬷
“Ma'am, he hasn't given me a proper look for days!”
“That worthless thing is so annoying, yet she obsesses over it constantly.”
The Chinese zither (guqin) is traditionally revered as an elegant scholarly art; calling it 'broken wood' immediately reveals the speaker's pettiness or cultural philistinism.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
worthless piece of wood / junk timber
A disparaging way to describe high-value wooden craft, like a guqin or furniture, to show extreme disrespect.
to treat something like a prized treasure
Used colloquially to criticize someone's excessive attachment to an item that the speaker finds useless.
