把房子让出来 小点声
“give up the house to them? Keep your voice down.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“and throw their weight around like this? Why should we”
把房子让出来 小点声
“give up the house to them? Keep your voice down.”
我跟你讲
“Let me tell you,”
“Hush, don't let anyone hear you complaining about having to yield the house!”
In shared courtyards or communal housing in 20th-century urban China, housing redistribution often caused high tension, requiring residents to discuss grievances in hushed tones to avoid public conflict.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
yield or surrender the house/room
Used when describing giving up living quarters to someone else under pressure or social obligation.
keep your voice down / whisper
An essential spoken imperative used to urgently tell someone not to talk loudly.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“keep your voice down. This is the duty room. What are you afraid of?”
“Keep it down. Don't wake the neighbors.”
“Lower your voice. I'll answer it in my room.”
“I fixed it! Turn it down. It's too loud. Isn't it good as new?”
“even a little, you'd have moved out long ago. Even if you couldn't buy a big house, you could have bought a small one.”
“Keep it down. No one should find out about this.”