如果你真的紧张 就把下面 想象成个大西瓜
“If you are really nervous, just imagine the audience as big watermelons.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“You stepped up in this crisis. I am very grateful to you.”
如果你 真的 紧张 就把下面 想象成 个大西瓜
“If you are really nervous, just imagine the audience as big watermelons.”
夏晓兰
“Xia Xiaolan.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Visualizing an audience as inanimate objects or vegetables like watermelons or cabbage heads is a common Chinese coaching trope to reduce performance anxiety.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
if... then...
The standard conditional sentence pattern in spoken and written Mandarin.
to imagine/picture something as...
A handy grammatical structure for reframing one's perception or visualizing an alternative.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I'm a bit nervous. Don't be nervous.”
“I'm terrified, yet you find this amusing?”
“Why are you so nervous?”
“Try to stay calm. There's no reason to be nervous.”
“Me? Nervous about what? I'm not nervous.”
“Why are you all so nervous?”