你们没吃饭啊
“Haven't you eaten?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
开门
“Open the door!”
你们 没吃饭 啊
“Haven't you eaten?”
斧头给我
“Give me the axe!”
“Put some real muscle into it, you are useless.”
In colloquial Chinese culture, asking if someone has not eaten is a standard rhetorical dig to rebuke weak physical exertion.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
haven't you eaten? (implying lack of strength or energy)
A very common colloquial rhetorical jibe used when someone performs physical work without sufficient power.
Adds an irritated, rhetorical sting to the critical question.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“You haven't eaten yet, have you?”
“Have you eaten?”
“Have you two not eaten yet either? No. We were scared to death.”