可费了我不少工夫
“It took me a lot of work.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你怎么搞来的呀？
“How did you get these?”
可 费了我不少工夫
“It took me a lot of work.”
“I'm so exhausted. Wu Shiguang, have you no shame?”
“You better appreciate how much trouble I went through to get this.”
Stressing personal effort before revealing a result is a conventional conversational tactic to claim relational credit or gratitude.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
took a great deal of effort/time
A natural way to stress the difficulty and dedication required to accomplish a task.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I worked so hard”
“It took a great deal of effort.”
“...went through a lot of trouble.”
“Of course. I put a lot of effort into it.”
“Two years ago, I worked my tail off.”