如果真的有鬼的话 我不但看得到 我也闻得到
“If there was a ghost, I'd see it, and smell it too.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“I don't understand. I know I saw her.”
如果真的 有鬼 的话 我 不但 看得到 我 也 闻 得 到
“If there was a ghost, I'd see it, and smell it too.”
但你的红包里面什么味道都没有
“- [sniffs] - This has no smell. Perhaps you just imagined it.”
“You are making things up; if anything were here, I would know.”
In Chinese folk belief, red envelopes picked up from the street may be associated with ghost marriages or spiritual pacts, creating tension around them.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
if...
A standard construction to introduce a hypothetical condition in spoken Chinese.
not only... but also...
Used to link two complementary or escalating actions or qualities.
Marks the preceding clause as a hypothetical condition.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Ghost! There's a ghost!”
“Only those with guilt fear ghosts.”
“Damn it.”
“Unless you've got a guilty conscience?”
“You looked at these two, but you didn't look at this one.”
“I can't tell if those around me are good.”