我每周至少要去酒吧给他拉一次架
“I was pulling that lad off boys in the pub at least once a week.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
说他脾气大 经常打架
“Something about having a temper and getting into fights.”
我每周 至少要 去酒吧 给他拉 一次 架
“I was pulling that lad off boys in the pub at least once a week.”
我觉得他脾气暴躁
“He had what I would call a foul temper.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Intervening in public fights is common among close acquaintances in China, often putting the mediator at personal risk to prevent legal trouble.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to break up a fight / to intervene in a brawl
A highly authentic colloquial verb-object compound used when physically pulling people apart during a brawl.
at least
Placed before quantity expressions or frequency phrases to emphasize minimum bounds.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“So all that talk was just an excuse to drink?”
“Make him drink a lot.”
“If you want to drink, why don't we just make something at your place?”
“Why did even you have to drink?”
“He'll go out and drink with others,”
“You're drinking alone at a bar.”