我那破手机一下就没电了
“My old phone ran out of battery,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
头疼病又犯了 昨天晚上在医院吊水呢
“and my headaches came back. I was on an IV at the hospital last night.”
我那破手机 一下就没电了
“My old phone ran out of battery,”
“and there was nowhere to charge it. I only got home this morning.”
“Don't blame me for disappearing—my terrible phone died on me!”
Belittling one's own possessions (like calling a phone '破') is a typical colloquial way to deflect relational blame onto external circumstances.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
crappy phone / lousy mobile
Attach the prefix '破' to objects to express dissatisfaction, depreciation, or annoyance toward them.
suddenly ran out of battery
Use '一下就' to emphasize how rapidly and unexpectedly an event or state change happened.
Marks the change of state indicating the phone went from charged to empty.
