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Hello, I'm Jiayin.
This is the English we speak.
And hello, I'm Rob.
You know, I'm a little bit worried about Roy.
Have you seen him today?
Is he ok?
I saw him earlier.
He was smiling as normal and in a good mood.
Why were you worried about him?
Well, I overheard him talking and he said he was bankrupt.
No, Rob, Roy was talking about a film he watched and he said it was creatively bankrupt.
We used the expression creatively bankrupt to describe something that's completely unoriginal
or lacks creativity or innovation.
Ah, that makes sense.
So I guess he really didn't like that film, then.
Mind you, films were better when I was younger.
Well, Rob, we can talk about your nostalgia right after these examples.
Margaret's third novel didn't do anything new and it just felt creatively bankrupt.