这煤只冒烟 成啥了 不冒火 我有球（啥）办法
“This coal only makes smoke. - What is this? - No flame at all. What can I do about it?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
这烟冒
“This smoke...”
这煤只冒烟 成啥了 不冒火 我有球（啥） 办法
“This coal only makes smoke. - What is this? - No flame at all. What can I do about it?”
“You keep pressing the coal, not the fire.”
“Don't blame me, the coal is completely useless and out of my control.”
In northern and northwestern spoken dialects, the word 'qiu' is inserted into negative rhetorical constructions to emphatically express futility and rough working-class camaraderie.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
what has this turned into; what a mess
A dialectal rhetorical question used to express disapproval of an unacceptable or chaotic state of affairs.
have no damn way; be completely helpless
A highly colloquial, crude northern/northwestern expression used among familiars to express total helplessness or exasperation.
Marks an unacceptable resulting state, reinforcing the speaker's irritation.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“You keep pressing the coal, not the fire.”
“You? Wait until you grow tall enough to reach the lampblack-making table first.”
“I just thought if the stove stays covered, wouldn't the fire go out?”
“at best, you'll just use it to pile up coal slag.”
“Why is there smoke from the study?”
“- (Liu Hongbing is like a hot coal.) - Qin'e.”