我会给牲口看病
“I can treat livestock,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我还好
“I'm fine.”
我会给牲口 看病
“I can treat livestock,”
年轻的时候还学了点打铁
“and I learned some blacksmithing when I was young.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Possessing varied manual trades like treating livestock or blacksmithing was the primary badge of self-reliance and honor in traditional working-class Chinese society.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to treat an illness / see a doctor
Can refer both to a patient seeing a doctor and to a practitioner treating a patient or animal.
livestock; draft animals
Everyday colloquial term for domestic farm animals such as cattle, horses, or donkeys.