那味可真够冲的
“God, the stench was unbearable.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
他还在那掏下水道呢
“he was unclogging a sewage pipe.”
那 味 可真够 冲 的
“God, the stench was unbearable.”
小点声
“Shh! Keep it down.”
“It stinks horribly over there because of what he's doing.”
Loudly commenting on unpleasant traits or manual labor within earshot of the worker is considered rude and face-damaging, which is why the listener immediately tells the speaker to lower their voice.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
really quite...; truly... enough
A colloquial intensifying structure used to emphasize an extreme quality, often for complaints or strong emotional reactions.
pungent; strong (of smells); aggressive (of speech)
Pronounced fourth tone (chòng), this colloquial adjective describes a smell that hits the nose hard or a person speaking in a confrontational way.
Works as part of the '够...的' intensifying frame to affirm and emphasize the degree of the smell.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“What a wonderful smell.”
“that tastes amazing. So he brought me to try it. Yeah, you took me there once before.”
“These noodles are really good.”
“The flavor is indeed extraordinary.”
“This taste is quite special.”
“Go!”