还给工人给赶走了
“but he's even driving the workers out.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
他不光压价不说
“Not only is he forcing the price down,”
还给 工人 给赶走了
“but he's even driving the workers out.”
“He did not just stop at unfair pay; he went completely ruthless by kicking the workers out.”
Depriving laborers of their job is culturally seen as 'breaking someone's rice bowl' (砸饭碗), an intolerable act of cruelty in traditional Chinese working-class morality.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
drive away / expel
Commonly used to describe forcibly evicting or banishing someone from a place or job.
Indicates the completion of the action and emphasizes the finality of the unjust event.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“She had a good factory job, yet”
“Hurry and have the workers rush the production.”
“make sure these workers eat and drink well.”
“He's offering more to the workers than you are.”
“She won't be coming back to the site. Have you demanded compensation?”
“Since I got fired from the factory earlier,”