这个地方 果然一点长进都没有
“This place truly hasn't improved one bit—”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
还是遵守一点好
“for the rules you're supposed to follow.”
这个 地方 果然 一点长进都没有
“This place truly hasn't improved one bit—”
不管是地方还是人
“neither the place itself nor the people.”
“Nothing ever improves here; you are all just as pathetic and stagnant as before.”
In Chinese culture, constantly striving for moral and material self-improvement (changjin) is a virtue; criticizing someone or a place for lacking it is a severe, dismissive insult.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
not at all / has not... whatsoever
Standard emphatic structure used to stress a complete absence of an expected trait or improvement.
progress / improvement
Often used evaluatively by a superior toward a subordinate or in dismissive remarks about character growth.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“then it means they have made no progress.”
“you've improved very fast.”
“After all these years, you haven't improved a bit.”
“you've made some serious progress.”
“They haven't grown up at all.”