现在马上就该搬砖喽
“Well, it's time to do some heavy lifting now.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“We are all bricks of the revolution. We go where we're needed.”
现在 马上 就该 搬砖 喽
“Well, it's time to do some heavy lifting now.”
市里面 不是刚给咱们 拨了五万块钱
“Didn't the city just give us 50,000 yuan”
“Back to the grind—time for us to do the dirty work.”
Originally rooted in socialist revolutionary imagery of being a building brick, contemporary Chinese workers use 'moving bricks' as self-deprecating humor to vent workplace fatigue.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
moving bricks; doing hard graft / daily grind
Widespread contemporary slang used by workers of all professions to describe doing tedious, exhausting work for a wage.
it will immediately be time to
Expresses an imminent schedule transition or inevitable next obligation.
Infuses the turn with a lively, resigned, or singsong realization of an unavoidable situation.
