那这样得干到 猴年马月去啊
“This will take forever.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
没有预算啊 我都陪你们搞测量了 人都不够的
“(Deep ranging) No budget for those. I'm doing fieldwork with you. We're short-staffed.”
那 这样 得干到 猴年马月 去啊
“This will take forever.”
“Less talking. Hold it steady.”
“We can't keep doing it this way—it will take forever!”
The Chinese idiom '猴年马月' originates from folk astrology and is widely used in daily conversation to humorously or bitterly describe something that seems never-ending.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
an indefinite future; god knows when; until the cows come home
A highly frequent colloquial idiom used to lament an unattainable date or endless wait.
to work until
Casual phrasing used to indicate working continuously until a particular point in time.
Enhances the rhetorical frustration and exaggerates the speaker's sense of helplessness.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“you probably won't be able to find anything.”
“Been waiting here? Yes.”
“Why... Wh-Why are you looking at me like that?”
“If we go door to door, it'll take forever.”