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Chinese logic -37 可爱 | 可怕 | 可怜 | 可笑

waveChinese 3rd March 2018


So emotion, much squee!


DIALOGUE

A:你最喜欢的卡通电影是哪部?

B:《冰河世纪》。里面的每个动物都超级可爱。

A:《冰河世纪4》,你看了吗?里面那个海盗看起来挺可怕的,上次差点儿把我外甥女吓哭了。

B:那个海盗的样子确实比较凶。我最喜欢看希德。他有时候特别可笑,笑得我眼泪都出来了。

A:不过有时候别的动物都不理他感觉他好可怜。


TRANSLATION

A: What is your favorite cartoon movie?
B: "Ice Age." All of the animals in the movies are super cute.
A: Have you watched "Ice Age 4"? The pirate in this movie looked quite scary and almost frightened my niece into crying last time.
B: That pirate was rather fierce-looking. I like to see Sid most. He was particularly funny sometimes, made me laugh so hard, and had tears in my eyes.
A: However, I felt that he was so poor sometimes when other animals ignored him completely.

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What are others saying?

Jan Johnson 28 May 2017

很有用

Damon Skinner 31 May 2017

Excellent explanation. Although Ke Lian is more like saying 'poor', right? Like in Poor so-and-so. Pitiful in english contains an element of disdain which I'm not sure the Chinese Ke Lian does.

Andrea Wang 31 May 2017

Thanks! You are right, "poor dog/pitiful dog" is 可怜的狗。Pitiful in Chinese also contains an element of disdain in some special situations, "我真可怜你!"

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