打份工而已 还要挨人揍
“She was just working. And she got slapped.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“What did Liang Danning do wrong?”
打份工 而已 还要 挨人揍
“She was just working. And she got slapped.”
我都替她委屈
“I feel so bad for her.”
“Nobody deserves to get beaten up over a regular paycheck.”
Modern Chinese workers often frame employment as mere labor exchange ('just working for wages') to highlight the absurdity of sacrificing one's dignity or safety for an employer.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
just working a regular job
Used to minimize the stakes or significance of one's employment to express that excessive demands or abuse are unwarranted.
to get beaten up by someone
A colloquial northern-leaning phrase meaning to suffer a physical beating.