他都要三天两头
“he kept asking about”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
就像我去家事庭
“Even when I went to the family court,”
他 都要 三天两头
“he kept asking about”
追着我后面问我的现状
“my situation every few days.”
“He just would not leave me alone and kept pestering me constantly.”
In Chinese institutional culture, intense supervision or follow-up is often framed as concern (关怀), but subordinates or recipients may find it overbearing.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
practically every day; every few days; constantly
Use this colloquial idiom to describe someone doing something irritatingly or remarkably often.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Then you can see them every day,”
“so you come here to upset them once a year?”
“And you still have to put up with their abuse all day.”
“has had one incident after another.”
“It had to happen someday.”
“What's bound to happen will happen.”