你还当艺术家呢 你当个锤子艺术家
“And you want to be an artist? What a joke.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
那照你这个说法 这剧团就完蛋了 省秦就完蛋了
“By your logic, this troupe is doomed. The provincial troupe is doomed.”
你 还 当 艺术家 呢 你当个 锤子艺术家
“And you want to be an artist? What a joke.”
锤子剧团 锤子艺术家 好着呢
“A joke of a troupe. A joke of an artist. Great.”
“You are a total fraud who doesn't deserve to call yourself an artist.”
In Shaanxi and Sichuan slang, '锤子' (hammer) functions as a rude, emphatic expletive used to utterly negate an idea or insult someone's pretensions.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
be nothing of the sort / not be a damn thing
A dialectal, vulgar emphatic negator from Southwestern and Northwestern dialects meaning 'absolute nonsense'.
and you think you're an artist
Used to mock someone whose real competence does not match their self-proclaimed title.
Highlights the ironic contrast between the listener's pretensions and reality.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Every time you said you wanted to be a great painter.”
“You'll be a great artist in the future.”
“You're a famous artist, but I'm too petty.”
“Do you think this is a street market or something? And all of you, squat down! [Mediation Center]”
“You wanna be an actor?”
“I want to be your boss. You work for me.”