他们是不是无家可归了？
“are they homeless now?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你们把网吧封了以后
“After you raided the internet cafe,”
他们 是不是 无家可归 了？
“are they homeless now?”
不是回家吗？
“Aren't we heading home?”
“Now that you've shut down the internet cafe, where are those internet addicts supposed to crash?”
In Chinese youth subculture and marginal urban communities, some internet-dependent or transient individuals stay overnight or spend extended periods in internet cafes, treating them as makeshift homes. Consequently, when an internet cafe is shut down, people jokingly describe them as being 'homeless'.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
homeless; having no home to return to
Originally a serious idiom denoting destitution and displacement, it is frequently used hyperbolically in colloquial speech to describe temporarily having nowhere to hang out or losing access to a habitual spot.
whether something has become or is in a certain state
A common colloquial question pattern used to offer a conjecture and seek confirmation from the listener.
Placed at the end of a sentence to indicate a change in situation or the emergence of a new state.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“No, we've arranged dormitories for them.”
“What do you think is happening? Is the Demon King coming?”
“If you don't pay them back, won't they go after you?”
“- Do you want to know how they vanished? - Yes.”
“just for that little salary of yours.”
“I didn't bring them out.”