白天不说人 晚上不说鬼 大半夜的别胡说八道
“Don't talk about the living during the day, and don't talk about ghosts at night. Don't talk nonsense in the middle of the night.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
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“Shut up.”
白天不说人 晚上不说鬼 大半夜的 别 胡说八道
“Don't talk about the living during the day, and don't talk about ghosts at night. Don't talk nonsense in the middle of the night.”
鬼呀
“Ghost!”
“You're creeping me out, shut your mouth before you jinx us!”
Traditional Chinese culture strongly warns against mentioning ghosts or calamity at night, fearing that spoken words have the power to summon supernatural misfortune.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
talking complete nonsense
A very common idiom used to dismiss someone's speech as absurd or baseless.
in the dead of night
Used as a temporal prefix to emphasize that an action is inappropriate or annoying given the late hour.
Reinforces the situational context and the speaker's mood of annoyance.
