偷鸡摸狗的活不干了
“stopped their petty thievery”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你说他们
“Can you believe they”
偷鸡摸狗 的活 不干了
“stopped their petty thievery”
来当兵了
“and joined the army?”
“They actually quit their shady little tricks and tried to go legit.”
Enlisting in the military is often viewed in historical and grassroots Chinese communities as a standard path for vagrants or delinquents to reform and wash their hands of shady backgrounds.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
petty theft; shady, furtive dealings
A highly common four-character idiom (chengyu) describing small-time crooks or underhanded, dishonorable acts.
stopped doing; quit doing
Spoken colloquial expression for ceasing a task, job, or lifestyle.
Signals a cessation or change in an ongoing state or habit.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“and Hua Caixiang is confirmed. We need to really shame those two.”
“only doing these sneaky,”
“How could he possibly stoop to theft?”
“Such sneaky skulkers deserve punishment.”
“these underhanded tricks”
“- Wait... - "She abuses her tiny bit of authority."”