你到那儿就喝西北风吧
“You'll starve to death there!”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你
“You...”
你到那儿就 喝西北风 吧
“You'll starve to death there!”
你要饭去吧你
“You'll end up begging!”
“You have no realistic prospects and will end up penniless.”
A traditional Chinese metaphor for facing utter destitution and having only cold winter air to consume.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
drink the northwest wind; go hungry with nothing to eat
A vivid idiomatic expression describing poverty, unemployment, or having no livelihood.
Conveys cynical resignation or sarcastic suggestion.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“am I supposed to live off nothing?”
“will have nothing to live on.”
“and everyone's supposed to starve?”
“how will we keep doing our business? We'll lose everything.”
“Otherwise, our whole family would be out on the street.”
“my whole family will starve. Now you're scared?”