闷个三五天 都没有效果
“and sealing the place for days, nothing worked.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
不管我们搬家有多仔细 房间里喷了十几罐蟑螂药
“no matter how carefully we moved, even after spraying over a dozen cans of insecticide”
闷个三五天 都 没有 效果
“and sealing the place for days, nothing worked.”
我们搬到哪里它们就跟到哪里
“Wherever we went, they followed.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Chinese domestic life, 'men' refers to hermetically sealing windows and doors after spraying insecticides to trap toxic fumes inside to ensure maximum extermination efficacy.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
three to five days, several days
An idiomatic approximate time frame commonly used in conversational Mandarin.
has no effect, completely ineffective
A standard spoken phrase used to express that an action, medicine, or effort yielded zero results.
