这泼天的富贵能轮得到我
“As if that kind of wealth would ever come my way.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
说要找个律师
“and she needs a lawyer.”
这 泼天的富贵 能 轮得到 我
“As if that kind of wealth would ever come my way.”
你听我说完
“Let me finish.”
“This sounds too good to be true; someone like me doesn't get that lucky.”
In contemporary Chinese pop culture, ordinary young people often self-deprecatingly assume immense good luck belongs only to others or comes with hidden risks.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
overwhelming good fortune / staggering wealth
A popular contemporary Internet buzzword and literary idiom used humorously or dramatically to describe a massive, life-changing opportunity.
to be one's turn to receive / to fall upon someone
Frequently used in negative or rhetorical questions to express that one is too insignificant to receive a privilege.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“this is an incredible blessing!”
“This is a catastrophe.”
“This is a god-given fortune.”
“Come to think of it, isn't all this wealth I have thanks to you?”
“If you take their money, you have to take the hits.”
“Roll in the benefactors.”