三天两头倒夜班 累得个贼死
“That's why she's working in the mechanical factory, working irregular shifts. How exhausting.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
把这么好的供销社的工作让给你 她至于去机械厂吗
“let you take over her job in the cooperative. That's why she's working in the mechanical factory,”
三天两头 倒夜班 累得个贼死
“That's why she's working in the mechanical factory, working irregular shifts. How exhausting.”
什么叫她让给我的 你退休我接班 天经地义
“She let me take over her job? It was your job before you retired, so I took over. That's perfectly normal.”
“Don't act like she did me a huge favor; this job is pure misery.”
During China's planned economy era, the 'dingti' policy allowed children to take over their parents' state-allocated jobs upon retirement, often triggering fierce intra-family competition.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
almost every day; constantly
Used colloquially to criticize the excessive frequency of an annoying event.
to work the night shift
Commonly used in manufacturing and service industries to describe rotational night work.
dead tired; utterly exhausted
A strong, highly colloquial northern regionalism expressing extreme physical fatigue.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I work three shifts a day.”
“That's exhausting. I don't like night shifts either. Fei Ni.”
“You can't even handle working at night?”
“I haven't had a good sleep in three days.”
“and my mentor didn't sleep for three days and nights.”
“You're showing up here from time to time.”