我唱歌跑调 特别难听
“I'm tone-deaf. Really bad.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我听你唱
“I want you to sing.”
我 唱歌跑调 特别 难听
“I'm tone-deaf. Really bad.”
她也跑调
“She's tone-deaf too.”
“Please don't make me sing, I'll embarrass myself.”
Exaggerating one's lack of talent is a conventional social strategy in Chinese culture to decline performance requests without seeming arrogant or uncooperative.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to sing out of tune / tone-deaf
Common everyday term used whenever someone sings off-key.
terrible to listen to / sounds awful
Colloquial and direct intensifier used to describe extremely unpleasant sounds or poor singing.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Didn't expect you to sing that well.”
“Stop singing! It sounds awful. I can't even hear the call.”
“She sang off-key,”