自相矛盾 漏洞百出
“It's contradictory. It doesn't add up!”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
告知我们他即将降临之事呢？
“and tell us he was about to descend?”
自相矛盾 漏洞百出
“It's contradictory. It doesn't add up!”
白修罗帮了她那么多 她却只顾自己
“White Asura helped her so much, but she only thought of herself.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Pairing two semantically reinforcing four-character idioms back-to-back is a quintessential stylistic device in Chinese to deliver a devastating, authoritative assessment.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
self-contradictory
A common four-character idiom used to describe an argument, statement, or behavior that conflicts with itself.
full of holes; riddled with flaws
Use this idiom when criticizing a poorly formulated plan, alibi, or theory that has glaring weaknesses.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“It's all because of this long, boring, terrible, plot-hole-filled novel”
“Your stories are full of loopholes and make no sense.”
“the software was full of loopholes”
“- Evans's story's full of holes. - [Hardy] It's leaky as fuck.”
“is truly contradictory”
“(You can see that it's full of bugs.)”
“There are too many holes in this. This is our only option now.”