我觉得有点奇怪 就不想接这个活
“It just felt off, so I didn't want the job.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
他非要让我把一双好端端的红皮鞋 贴皮成蓝皮鞋
“He insisted I turn a perfectly good pair of red heels into blue ones.”
我觉得 有点奇怪 就 不想 接这个活
“It just felt off, so I didn't want the job.”
结果他给我800块钱的工钱 800块钱
“But then he offered me 800 yuan. Eight hundred yuan”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In spoken Chinese, '活' (literally life/living) is standard colloquial terminology for manual tasks or repair jobs.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
a bit strange / suspicious
Used to express an intuitive sense that something is abnormal or off.
take on this job / gig
A colloquial way among manual workers and freelancers to refer to accepting a specific job.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I took on a gig recently,”
“I bet you're the only one who'd dare take on such a rushed job.”
“Well, I recently took on a gig,”
“I wonder if you're willing to take it.”
“Otherwise, she wouldn't have taken the job.”
“If you do not want to take this case, then we will drop it.”