抽牙神经不会太久的
“It won't take long extracting a tooth nerve, will it?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Your brother... Miss Feng, I have an appointment in a while.”
抽牙神经 不会太久 的
“It won't take long extracting a tooth nerve, will it?”
不用不用 很快
“No, it won't. It'll be quick.”
“Don't stress about your schedule, you will still make your appointment.”
In Chinese healthcare, patients rarely use technical Latinate terms; common procedures like root canals are described vividly through colloquial actions like 'pulling the tooth nerve' (抽牙神经).
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to undergo a root canal treatment
The common colloquial Chinese term for endodontic treatment, literally meaning 'pulling out the tooth nerve'.
won't take too long
A handy reassurance chunk used whenever trying to assuage someone's impatience or time-related anxiety.
Placed at the end of the sentence to assert certainty and provide conviction to the reassurance.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Eat quickly. You're going to the hospital to extract the dental nerve today.”
“Don't bite off more than you can chew.”
“Better yet, a fucking dentist.”
“You won't be afraid of it if I'm a dentist?”
“The hospital said this tooth needed surgery to be removed.”
“In a few days, if you have your teeth which are always inflamed pulled out,”