他能好到哪去啊？
“What is he doing?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
打
“Beat him to death!”
他能 好到哪去 啊？
“What is he doing?”
“Are you killing Yanlai, Great-uncle?”
“He must be severely injured after that brutal beating!”
In traditional Chinese families, senior elders possessed absolute authority to administer harsh corporal discipline over junior clan members.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
cannot be in any good shape; how good can it be
A rhetorical structure expressing that a situation or condition is definitely bad.
Softens the rhetorical question while conveying emotional agitation and urgency.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Where do you think he could have gone?”
“so how would he know?”
“Where could I have gone?”
“miserable end the jerk will have.”
“I really don't know where else to look for him.”
“Where are you going?”