你可不能学你的师父啊
“You can't follow your master's example.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
没自己生活了
“No personal life anymore.”
你 可不能 学你的师父啊
“You can't follow your master's example.”
他是榆木疙瘩
“He's a blockhead,”
“Do not ruin your personal life by turning into an inflexible workaholic like him.”
In traditional and modern Chinese workplaces, apprentices naturally adopt their mentor's habits, prompting close peers to offer candid life advice against over-identifying with work.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
must really not; definitely should not
Used with emphatic force to urge someone against adopting an undesirable habit or choice.
master; mentor
A traditional term still prevalent in modern Chinese workplaces for an assigned senior mentor teaching a craft or profession.
Adds warmth, intimacy, and earnestness to an advisory or warning statement.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“have a lot to learn from your master.”
“Your master has extraordinary experience and skills,”
“decided not to accept you as a disciple—”
“I can't be your master anymore.”
“Isn't your master all-knowing? Didn't he teach you?”
“how could I abandon”