就要不断地给他收拾烂摊子
“had to constantly clean up his messes.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
而那个聪明的呢
“and the smart one”
就要 不断地给他 收拾烂摊子
“had to constantly clean up his messes.”
就这样过了很多年
“Many years passed like this.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Chinese narrative culture, fixing another person's repeated mistakes often highlights emotional entanglement and enduring patience within close ties.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to clean up a mess; to fix someone else's blunder
A very common colloquial idiom used when taking care of troublesome situations left behind by others.
continuously; incessantly
Use this adverbial phrase to emphasize that an action keeps happening repeatedly without interruption.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I spent too much time cleaning up his messes.”
“These past few days, I've been cleaning up this mess for him.”
“I've been cleaning up his mess.”