这些猴子们 都来我这儿免费打电话 是吧
“These "monkeys" all come here to make free calls, right?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
只有我这儿有一台电话
“I'm the only one with a telephone.”
这些 猴子们 都来我这儿 免费 打电话 是吧
“These "monkeys" all come here to make free calls, right?”
“Right. Some without companies handle accounts through me.”
“Are you telling me everyone treats my office like a free public phone booth?”
In 1980s and 1990s China, landline telephones were rare private assets, often becoming informal neighborhood hubs where boundaries between personal and public resources blurred.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
make free phone calls
Use this collocation when describing accessing telecommunication services without paying.
right? / isn't that so?
Add this tag at the end of a statement to seek quick agreement or confirm an observation.
Softens the interrogative sentence into a casual request for confirmation.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“You are all business people. Can you be a bit reasonable?”
“He's doing it because he fears you might get scared by monkeys again.”
“Now the 'monkeys' are all panicking.”
“I wasn't mistaken. There were monkeys!”
“I exaggerated a bit. So now, they all think I'm the Secretary of Yuehai.”
“making the 'monkeys' pay to build Yuehai. Unbelievable!”