我费了那么大的劲
“I worked so hard”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
家对我来说是用来怀念的
“For me, home is something to be remembered.”
我 费了那么大的劲
“I worked so hard”
我好不容易考到庆州 我不是为了在那儿只上四年学
“to get into Qingzhou University, not just to study there for four years.”
“I worked too hard to escape; I am not throwing it all away to settle down back home.”
For many Chinese youth, excelling in exams to attend university in a major city represents a hard-won ticket to social mobility that they are unwilling to compromise by returning to a small hometown.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
expended such great effort / went through so much trouble
Use this spoken pattern to highlight how demanding or painstaking an accomplishment was before explaining a subsequent decision.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“It took me a lot of work.”
“We went to all that trouble”
“Two years ago, I worked my tail off.”
“...went through a lot of trouble.”
“It took a great deal of effort.”
“we went to such great lengths”