他们都等了好几个小时了
“They've waited for hours.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
查过了 没带家伙
“Checked. No weapons.”
他们都 等了好几个小时 了
“They've waited for hours.”
“Should we... The bottle's open. Let them enjoy themselves.”
“Stop stalling and join us already; you are being disrespectful by keeping everyone waiting.”
Leaving invited guests waiting in Chinese social culture creates social pressure on the host, which peers often leverage to enforce participation and drinking etiquette.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
already; having reached the point of
Used as an emphatic construction to stress that a duration or quantity has exceeded reasonable expectations.
several hours; quite a few hours
A colloquial way to exaggerate or emphasize a prolonged period of time, where '好几' adds weight to the quantity.
Functions as a sentence-final particle indicating ongoing duration and emphasizing the excessive elapsed time.
