你这人怎么油盐不进的
“Why are you so stubborn?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
那新人之外还有新人呢
“There are always new people beyond the ones you know.”
你这人怎么 油盐不进 的
“Why are you so stubborn?”
去不去
“Are you going or not?”
“You are impossibly stubborn and completely immune to persuasion.”
Traditional Chinese idioms frequently use culinary imagery; 'impervious to oil and salt' paints a vivid picture of hard ingredients that cannot absorb flavor, symbolizing stubbornness.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
completely impervious to reason or persuasion / stubborn
An idiomatic colloquial four-character phrase used to describe someone who refuses to listen to soft persuasion or hard reasoning.
Functions as a sentence-final particle asserting an established trait or characteristic with emphasis.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“(This person just won't listen.)”
“why are you being so stubborn?”
“Why are you so stubborn?”
“Stubborn as a mule.”