还要整日受他们的气
“And you still have to put up with their abuse all day.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
在日本军队医院工作了
“...by working at the Japanese military hospital.”
还要 整日受他们的气
“And you still have to put up with their abuse all day.”
“I'm sick and tired of being treated like a punching bag every single day.”
'受气' conveys the emotional burden of absorbing someone else's hostility without being able to strike back due to power asymmetry, a common pain point in hierarchical settings.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to be subjected to someone's bad temper; to be mistreated/bullied
A common idiom expressing that one has to passively swallow anger or unjust hostility directed by others.
all day long; day in and day out
Used in spoken or written Chinese to emphasize ongoing, wearisome conditions.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“[Qinwen Hall] I'll stay mad at him!”
“he kept asking about”
“and tortured us all day long whenever he felt displeased.”
“so you come here to upset them once a year?”
“He made plenty of enemies.”
“I had to grovel all day long”