打够五十只苍蝇
“Swat fifty flies.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
小人常戚戚
“The petty man is always full of anxiety.”
打够五十只苍蝇
“Swat fifty flies.”
“Do not stop until you have precisely reached fifty, no excuses.”
Imposing peculiar, exact, and tedious demands is a traditional method used by superiors in Chinese cultural dynamics to break an individual's ego and instill obedience.
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I'm quite good at swatting flies.”
“Not even a fly flew in.”
“Inside it were bottles full of flies. Flies? Exactly.”
“Two annoying flies.”
“”
“probably just to catch flies.”