都作了十七八回揖了
“bowed about eighteen times already.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我见这穆知翟
“Mu Zhidi”
都 作了十七八回揖 了
“bowed about eighteen times already.”
可怜见儿的
“Poor thing.”
“He is begging relentlessly and really humbled himself to get this done.”
Making deep bows with clasped hands repeatedly signifies immense deference, earnest supplication, or remorse in historical Chinese etiquette.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to make a traditional bow with hands clasped
Commonly encountered in period dramas to describe traditional hand-clasping salutations or pleading gestures.
seventeen or eighteen times (many times)
Used idiomatically as hyperbole to stress that an action was repeated exhaustively.
Emphasizes the excessive accumulation of actions up to the present moment.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“countless times today.”
“I've said it at least eighty times, if not a hundred.”
“at the Purong Hotel.”
“many times. Why don't you go back and read the record?”
“Third time? It's been at least 5 times! I'm keeping count!”
“I've spent most of my life.”