一天到晚像个叫花子似的
“She's always acting like a beggar,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你说什么呢
“-Can you educate your daughter properly? -What are you talking about?”
一天到晚 像个叫花子似的
“She's always acting like a beggar,”
到处要钱
“asking for money everywhere.”
“Have some dignity and stop begging like a tramp all day long.”
In Chinese culture, constantly begging family members or peers for financial handouts is seen as losing self-respect and deeply humiliating to the family's collective face.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
all day long; from morning till night
Commonly used in spoken Chinese to complain about a repetitive, irritating habit.
beggar
A colloquial and derogatory term for a beggar, frequently used as an insult.
just like; as if
A framing structure used to draw vivid similes in colloquial speech.
Functions as a colloquial auxiliary particle indicating resemblance or similarity.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“You're gone for a full day today, sending back no word.”
“All you do every day is squander money on wine and women.”
“You're gone for a full day today, sending back no word.”