本来人就不够用 现在又多了三十张嘴
“We're already short-handed. Now we've got thirty more mouths.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我是伙管 我不是伙夫 那要个伙夫嘛
“I run the kitchen. I'm not the cook. Then get us a cook.”
本来 人就 不够用 现在又多了三十张嘴
“We're already short-handed. Now we've got thirty more mouths.”
“How can we keep up with that? What makes you think I didn't ask?”
“Stop expecting me to handle everything when you gave me impossible numbers and zero help.”
In communal dining systems, kitchen staff face immense pressure when extra personnel arrive without corresponding budget or labor allocation.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
not enough to meet needs; insufficient
A very frequent colloquial structure applied to people, money, or time to denote scarcity.
mouths (to feed)
Used as a vivid measure word expression for consumers or dependents who must be fed.
Marks the new change of situation that triggered the increased burden.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“But we don't have enough players. Then let's figure it out!”
“one more person eating here makes no difference.”
“that you're also this sharp-tongued.”
“I don't know who you take after.”
“Before this, I always felt indebted.”
“If we have three more mouths, If you insist on taking us there,”