这么多年的陈芝麻烂谷子的事
“over so many years,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
把发生在他们身上
“These clients can't wait to pull you in and unload everything that's happened to them”
这么多年 的 陈芝麻烂谷子 的事
“over so many years,”
都给你倒腾一遍
“all the old grievances.”
“Why are people still obsessing over these worn-out, ancient petty details?”
Chinese interpersonal disputes often drag up long-buried trivial grievances, which listeners frequently dismiss using agricultural metaphors like stale grain.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
worn-out old trivial matters; stale ancient history
A vivid colloquial idiom used when someone brings up petty, long-forgotten disputes or gossip.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“it's all about the past.”
“It's all in the past now.”
“Why dig up that? It was a long time ago.”