我还当是夸大其词呢
“I thought it was an exaggeration.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
原来世间真有如此特别的花朵
“So there really are such special flowers in this world.”
我 还 当是 夸大其词 呢
“I thought it was an exaggeration.”
圣上 你看
“Your Majesty, look.”
“I honestly doubted the rumors, but seeing it now, it really is extraordinary.”
Chinese cultural rhetoric often appreciates humble self-correction ('seeing is believing') when confronted with undeniable elegance or virtue.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to exaggerate or blow things out of proportion
A common formal idiom used to describe accounts, claims, or rumors that embellish reality.
I mistakenly thought that...
Used in spoken Chinese when realization strikes that one's prior assumption was wrong.
Softens the realization and reflects a mild lingering sense of surprise or reflection.