这狗窝里留不下剩骨头
“This house is always running out of stuff.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
好茶
“Nice tea.”
这 狗窝里留不下剩骨头
“This house is always running out of stuff.”
家里茶还没喝完呢 又把新的打开了
“There's still tea at home, and you've opened a new tin.”
“You just can't wait to consume anything good the moment you get your hands on it.”
Traditional Chinese domestic values stress frugality and finishing opened items before touching new, high-grade goods.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
cannot keep / unable to save
A potential complement expressing the inability to hold onto or preserve something.
a dog cannot keep leftover bones (unable to save treats/goods)
A vivid colloquial idiom used within families to tease someone who immediately eats or opens good things.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“The grass is always greener on the other side.”
“will not be able to stay at the dog farm.”
“Even dogs don't come to this place.”
“you act like a dog with a bone.”
“He needs to find some biting fighters”
“we are nothing without money.”