租界说大不小的 是你说想找就能找着的呀
“The concession is quite big. Finding someone is not that easy.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
找遍了难民收容所 都没有大爹的下落 那废话
“I searched the whole shelter but couldn't find him anywhere. Of course.”
租界 说大不小 的 是你 说想找 就能 找着 的 呀
“The concession is quite big. Finding someone is not that easy.”
行行行 行了
“All right.”
“Be realistic, finding him is practically searching for a needle in a haystack.”
Close peers often employ sharp rhetorical questions to quickly dismiss unfeasible plans rather than offering vague reassurance.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
neither particularly large nor small; of moderate size
Part of the symmetrical pattern '说X不X', used in spoken Mandarin to describe a neutral, moderate attribute.
just because you want to... doesn't mean you can...
Use this rhetorical structure to dismiss someone's unrealistic assumptions or wishful thinking.
Softens the rhetorical question into an emphatic yet spoken conversational challenge.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“are running amok in the concession.”
“recently in the concession, the streets are full of homeless refugees.”
“In this tiny concession, where could the master go?”
“You've been in the concession for a long time. Help me ask around”
“Since refugees are flocking to the concession, the restaurant is doing extremely well.”
“But since we are in the concession,”