妹夫儿 赶紧喝喜酒 兄弟几个
“Brother-in-law, hurry up and drink the wedding wine. Brothers!”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
行合卺礼
“Perform the cross-cupped wine ceremony!”
妹夫儿 赶紧喝 喜酒 兄弟 几个
“Brother-in-law, hurry up and drink the wedding wine. Brothers!”
帮妹夫儿把酒喝下去 我不喝 我不喝
“Help our brother-in-law drink the wine! I won't drink it! I won't drink it!”
“You cannot escape drinking today; it is time to down this cup whether you like it or not.”
At traditional Chinese weddings, relatives and friends energetically urge the groom to drink alcohol to foster a lively atmosphere (热闹), where lighthearted hazing is considered festive.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
brother-in-law (younger sister's husband)
A kinship address used by elder siblings to address their younger sister's husband, often with an added suffix '-儿' in colloquial northern speech.
drink wedding wine / attend a wedding banquet
A conventional idiom used broadly to refer to celebrating a wedding feast or drinking alcohol at a wedding.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Zheng! Zheng!”
“Decheng. Come on! - Wait! - What's going on?”
“Yunfei, you've got to top up here.”
“You and your husband helped me so much.”
“Whether he's my brother-in-law is still up in the air.”
“Zhigang, you have to help me.”