没日没夜拼命地干
“I worked my ass off day and night,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我最近不干了
“I quit recently.”
没日没夜 拼命地干
“I worked my ass off day and night,”
“but the boss took all the money. I only hid a few grains of placer gold,”
“I broke my back working like a dog, so I felt entitled to whatever I could sneak away with.”
Expressing that one worked 'without day or night' is a standard rhetorical device in Chinese to establish moral justification when rebelling against an exploitative employer.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
day and night; around the clock without rest
A vivid four-character idiom used to describe ceaseless, exhausting labor or activity.
working with all one's might; working desperately
Used colloquially to describe pushing oneself to the physical limit when working or studying.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I worked my ass off.”
“working day and night, and it was only through this effort”
“Even if we work day and night,”
“I've worked day and night for over 10 years!”
“Even though we're working late, we still need”