四十条腿 咱还多送他四条 那怎么行
“That's forty legs. Four extra for them. That won't do.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
但也没说是哪三十六条啊 咱就弄他十个小板凳
“but they didn't specify which legs. We could make ten little stools.”
四十条腿 咱还 多送 他四条 那怎么行
“That's forty legs. Four extra for them. That won't do.”
林梅
“Lin Mei,”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In 1970s China, furnishing a newlywed home traditionally required sets of wooden furniture totaling thirty-six legs (such as tables, chairs, wardrobes, and beds).
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
that won't do; that is unacceptable
A common colloquial rhetorical expression used to firmly oppose a suggestion or condition.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Her new home barely has anything.”
“I thought about it just now. They said thirty-six legs,”
“They broke his leg like it was nothing.”
“Shouldn't there be at least thirty-six legs?”
“whenever someone or even a pet in my district went missing, I could find them with my eyes closed.”
“If Laosi wants to try something new, we should support him, right?”