跑到这儿来学打铁
“but came here to learn blacksmithing instead.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“This girl isn't studying properly with me,”
跑到这儿 来学打铁
“but came here to learn blacksmithing instead.”
好 是吧
“Okay. Right?”
“You threw away your dignified studies just to do rough, disgraceful manual work here!”
Rooted in Confucian hierarchy, intellectual study (念书) is revered above manual crafts like blacksmithing, making a girl abandoning study for labor especially shocking to traditional elders.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
run over here / come all the way here
Commonly used with a critical or bewildered tone to emphasize inappropriate or unexpected displacement to do something objectionable.
learn blacksmithing
Refers literally to blacksmithing, but colloquially symbolizes rough, heavy manual labor.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“We're here for a scripture too.”
“hired iron-flower performers to perform. It was so beautiful.”
“come here to ask for your advice”
“will bite through this iron bucket...”
“I can learn a trade.”
“My parents sold everything to send me to college.”