你少拿我打镲你
“Don't make fun of me.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
看来是要提拔你 当孟台呀
“It seems that they want to promote you to the director of the TV station.”
你少拿我 打镲 你
“Don't make fun of me.”
这地方台现在都在缩编 我能保住自己的栏目
“Local TV stations are laying off employees. I'll be glad”
“Quit messing with me, I'm just struggling to keep my job.”
In Chinese institutional culture, openly accepting premature congratulations on a promotion invites jealousy or bad luck; deflecting it via self-deprecation is standard etiquette.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
make fun of; poke fun at someone; tease
Beijing/Tianjin dialect expression equivalent to '开玩笑' or '拿人逗乐', widely understood in Northern spoken Chinese.
stop using me as...; don't even start with me
Colloquial imperative structure used to firmly dismiss someone teasing or targeting you.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Don't try to provoke me. I won't fall for it.”
“Your drumsticks even fell to the floor. How can you blame me?”
“If he hands me the drumsticks again”
“Don't you try that on me.”
“Stop being so hypocritical.”
“Don't bandy words with me.”