这调子起得可够高的
“that sounded quite ambitious.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我当时一想
“At the time, I thought,”
这调子起 得 可够 高 的
“that sounded quite ambitious.”
你说我吧
“As for me,”
“You're making this sound way grander than it actually needs to be.”
Deriving from musical performance, '起调' is commonly applied to rhetoric in Chinese to critique speech that sounds overly pretentious or morally lofty.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to set the tone (often too high or grand)
A musical metaphor frequently used in spoken Chinese to describe setting high expectations, standards, or moral framing.
quite...; really rather...
A common colloquial pattern used to add emphasis, often carrying a slightly ironic or impressed undertone.
Functions as part of the emphatic structure '可够...的' to stress the degree of the description.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“won't that be a bit too high-profile?”
“Yeah. That's pretty loud.”
“Are we being a bit too flashy?”
“[East Suburb of Qingping County] I want the highest one.”
“Why are you shaking so badly?”
“You'd better shout louder.”