数数你那边有多少人 数了也没用
“Count how many there are on your side. What's the point?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“I never thought there'd be a day when I have to team up with you.”
数数 你那边有多少人 数了也没用
“Count how many there are on your side. What's the point?”
打倒几个算几个
“Just take down as many as we can.”
“Don't bother counting—we're completely surrounded and just have to fight our way out.”
In Chinese wuxia/action narratives, former rivals fighting back-to-back often employ grim humor and blunt realism to steel their resolve against hopeless odds.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
counting won't do any good / there's no point in counting
Used to express the futility of an action, following the pattern '[verb] + 了也没用'.
count
A reduplicated verb form used in spoken Mandarin to indicate a brief or casual action of counting.
Marks the hypothetical completion of the counting action before indicating its futility.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Think of how much money and how many people are involved!”
“Just how many people are there?”
“How many people died in there?”
“I didn't know your number.”
“Did you see it clearly? How many people are there?”
“Help you count what? Where was I? What do you mean?”