还选了个不如你的 这还不证明你没那命
“he picked someone who was not as good as you. It just proved that you're destined to fail.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
二分之一的机会 大家都认为应该选你吧 结果呢
“everyone thought that you had 50% chance to be chosen. But”
还选了个 不如你 的 这还 不证明 你 没那命
“he picked someone who was not as good as you. It just proved that you're destined to fail.”
人家没有不如我 我也没有不如她 只是导演觉得
“She wasn't not as good as me. And I wasn't not as good as her, either. It's just that the director thought”
“Face reality: you were beaten by someone worse than you, so give up because you'll never make it.”
Chinese culture frequently invokes 'ming' (destiny or luck) both to rationalize failure and to bluntly convince family members to quit chasing risky dreams.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
not as good as; inferior to
A common comparative structure used to indicate that one person or thing falls short of another.
not fated for that; not destined to enjoy such fortune
A fatalistic colloquial idiom used to dismiss someone's grand ambitions as impossible dreams.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I'll never measure up to you in others' eyes.”
“My opponents are all so weak.”
“to alter their garments. I also think that's beneath me.”
“I think you just made the wrong choice.”
“I feel like I'd have been better off not knowing him at all.”
“You have no choice.”