丁有财没少用那东西吓唬我
“Ding Youcai used that thing to scare me plenty.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你见过那把刀吗
“Have you seen that knife?”
丁 有 财 没少 用那 东西 吓唬我
“Ding Youcai used that thing to scare me plenty.”
有时候心情不好了
“Sometimes when he was in a bad mood,”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Using litotes like '没少' (not few) is a standard colloquial pattern to strongly accentuate frequency or intensity.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
often; frequently; did a lot of
A double negative used adverbially before a verb to emphasize that an action occurred frequently or in large amounts.
to scare; to intimidate
Commonly used in spoken Chinese to describe threatening or frightening someone.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Others say he just gave him some money and abandoned him.”
“Do you know Ding Youcai?”
“what happened to Ding Youcai?”
“I've spent all the money Ding Lai gave us.”
“If Uncle Ding hadn't stepped in to help,”
“Ding Wei's alright at his job. He just spouted some nonsense.”