北京大了什么鸟都有
“Beijing is huge. There are all sorts of people here.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
中
“Okay.”
北京大了 什么鸟都有
“Beijing is huge. There are all sorts of people here.”
“It doesn't matter what kind of man he is!”
“Don't sweat it; in a huge city like this, you run into all kinds of weirdos.”
Residents of megacities like Beijing often use adaptations of the proverb '林子大了什么鸟都有' (when the forest is big, all kinds of birds dwell) to shrug off peculiar characters or dubious encounters with practical detachment.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
all kinds of strange people exist; it takes all sorts to make a world
A highly colloquial, slightly pejorative variation of the idiom '林子大了什么鸟都有', used to express that encountering weird or unprincipled people in a large group or city is inevitable.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Beijing is absolutely huge.”
“I heard Beijing has a lot of good food.”
“Such a big city definitely needs lots of drivers.”
“which families are raising pigeons”
“getting stood up today”
“who is raising pigeons.”