你看这角没了 它还能叫獬豸吗
“Without its horn, can it still be called a Xiezhi?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“by some uncivilized person.”
你看这 角 没了 它 还能叫 獬豸 吗
“Without its horn, can it still be called a Xiezhi?”
关键是我想给您换一个好的 但是
“I wanted to get you a new one but”
“This is completely ruined and useless now because a Xiezhi without its horn is meaningless.”
The Xiezhi is a legendary Chinese creature possessing a single horn that can intuitively detect right from wrong and rams the guilty; in modern China, it serves as an iconic cultural symbol for the legal profession and judiciary.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
look; check this out
A common conversational marker used to direct the listener's visual or mental attention to evidence supporting an argument.
can still be considered/called
Frequently used in rhetorical questions to emphasize that something has lost its core defining characteristic.
Marks a change of state, indicating the horn has already been broken off.
Turns the statement into a rhetorical question implying an obvious negative answer.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“this one-of-a-kind Xiezhi.”
“Who is the jar and who is the turtle”
“You grew horns. You've finally become a dragon.”
“Some star? What star?”
“fight it out.”
“How did you know I was the one in the xiezhi mask?”