你怎么不从开天辟地开始讲啊
“Why not start from the creation of heaven and earth?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Why drag in all this unrelated matter?”
你怎么不 从 开天辟地 开始讲 啊
“Why not start from the creation of heaven and earth?”
“You're out of touch with the people!”
“Stop beating around the bush and just get to the point already.”
Pangu separating the heavens and the earth (开天辟地) is the foundational Chinese creation myth, commonly used colloquially to tease someone for overexplaining something from the absolute dawn of time.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to start talking from the dawn of creation; to start from the very beginning
A humorous, sarcastic idiom used when someone provides far too much unnecessary historical background.
Enhances the rhetorical and teasingly exasperated tone of the sarcastic question.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Groundbreaking achievements are always legends.”
“Pangu separated heaven and earth,”
“Trying to remake the world? What are you thinking?”
“Where should I begin?”
“She's going to establish her own school.”
“begins here.”