听我说 听我说 听我说
“Listen to me.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
哥哥哥
“Bro! Bro!”
听我说 听我说 听我说
“Listen to me.”
这个 演出我们演完了
“We've finished the performance,”
“Stop shouting and let me explain what happened!”
Rapid three-fold repetition of short imperatives is a standard Chinese pragmatic device for seizing conversational control during tense or overlapping dialogue.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
listen to me / hear me out
Essential conversational phrase used repeatedly to interrupt interruption and seize control of the floor.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Listen to me. Listen.”
“Yuanbao, listen to me. Listen to me, Yuanbao.”
“No, hear me out first.”
“and listen to me. They have already broken up.”