给我们家搞得鸡犬不宁
“Turning our house upside down”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“You've come to search our home two days in a row”
给我们家搞得鸡犬不宁
“Turning our house upside down”
爸
“Dad”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Chinese culture, home is the core bastion of order and safety; invasive external intrusions violate fundamental family dignity, prompting extreme indignation.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
great turmoil; not even fowls and dogs kept in peace
A vivid four-character idiom used to describe extreme domestic or community turmoil caused by intruders or trouble.
causing or turning into (a negative state)
Commonly used in spoken Chinese to attribute blame for a messy or undesirable result.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“and has turned the Capital on its ear.”
“threw us into utter chaos. Right?”
“it tears families apart.”
“and the house is a mess.”