大晚上这么漫无目的地找 也不是办法
“Searching aimlessly at night isn't going to help.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我们回去吧
“Let's head back.”
大晚上 这么 漫无目的 地找 也不是 办法
“Searching aimlessly at night isn't going to help.”
明天早上继续
“We'll keep looking in the morning.”
“We are wasting our time out here in the dark; let us just stop and go home.”
Chinese speakers often soften directives by framing an action as objectively ineffective ('not a solution') rather than directly telling the other person to stop.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
late at night / in the middle of the night
Used to emphasize the inconvenience or unreasonableness of doing something during late night hours.
aimlessly / without a clear goal
A common four-character idiom adverb used to describe doing an action without clear direction.
is not a sustainable solution / cannot go on like this
A frequent oral idiom used when suggesting an end to a futile or counterproductive strategy.
