《Light to the Night》 S1·E24 (22:28)
HSK 4
gěi zhè zhǒng rén dāng niú zuò mǎ
给这种人当牛做马
“Serving someone like him”
《Light to the Night》
S1·E24
TIMECODE: 22:28
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THE DIALOGUE REEL
gěi zhè zhǒng rén dāng niú zuò mǎ
CURRENT FOCUS
给 这种人 当牛做马
“Serving someone like him”
[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN
zǒng bǐ zài wǒ dà yí jiā qiáng bǎi bèi qiān bèi ba
总比在我大姨家强百倍千倍吧
“had to be a thousand times better than staying at my aunt's home.”
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Scene:
Daily Life
Function:
COMPLAINING
Tone:
COMPLAINING
Emotion:
FRUSTRATION
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“I hate slaving away for this person, but I feel stuck doing it.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Endurance and Bitterness (Chi Ku)
Describing oneself as 'beasts of burden' (当牛做马) reflects the cultural trope of extreme toil and personal sacrifice, often invoked when weighing unfavorable employment against worse personal alternatives.
INTENT TAGS:
#complaining
#venting
#self_deprecation
#comparison
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
当牛做马
SPOKEN CHUNK
to work like a horse; to slave away
A vivid four-character idiom used colloquially to describe enduring extreme labor or servility for someone else.
这种人
SPOKEN CHUNK
this kind of person
Often carries a pejorative or critical nuance depending on the speaker's tone.
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2 EXPR · 0 GRAMMAR
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
COLLOQUIAL EXPRESSIONS:
CROSS-CINEMA CORPUS BOARD · PARALLEL SCENES
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Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
《Light to the Night》 S1·E24 (22:28) · Authentic Cinema Dialogue Corpus