哪儿来的火嘛 你得捅一下 你看
“How's it supposed to catch then? You need to poke it. See?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“You keep pressing the coal, not the fire.”
哪儿来的 火嘛 你得 捅一下 你看
“How's it supposed to catch then? You need to poke it. See?”
你看这不行了吗这
“See? It's working now.”
“Stop nagging me; the fire won't catch unless you poke it like this.”
Tending honeycomb briquette or coal stoves in northern China required specific techniques of pressing and poking to maintain ventilation and heat.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
where would ... come from? (how could there be...)
A common rhetorical framing used to dismiss an unrealistic expectation or claim.
poke it / prod it once
Used specifically for poking or stoking embers or holes in a briquette stove.
Highlights an obvious fact that the listener should have already realized.