把别人都羡慕死了
“Everyone's so jealous.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
把 别人 都 羡慕死了
“Everyone's so jealous.”
我就跟他们说
“I was like,”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Boasting about light workloads and high pay reflects the popular contemporary ideal of effortless success among Chinese youth.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
extremely jealous / dying of envy
A common colloquial complement structure used to express intense jealousy or admiration toward someone's good fortune.
Functions as an intensifier marking a completed change of state within the complement construction '...死了'.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I'm honestly jealous.”
“I care about people who envy or are jealous of me.”
“I'm just a bit envious of you—”
“I feel envious when I see you.”
“We used to envy them so much.”
“It made me so envious.”