谁都来看看 那我们别工作了
“If everyone could come to visit here, we couldn't get any work done.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“But this is not a place that you can visit. As you can see, everyone is busy.”
谁都来看看 那我们别 工作 了
“If everyone could come to visit here, we couldn't get any work done.”
“How about this? I'll come home a few days later. Then I'll invite you to dinner at our house”
“You cannot come in; stop asking to visit because it is a nuisance to our work.”
Rather than flatly saying 'no, I don't want you here', Chinese speakers often appeal to collective productivity constraints to soften the rejection and protect face.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
anyone / everyone
Used as an emphatic subject meaning 'no matter who' or 'everyone without exception'.
might as well stop working / cannot work anymore
Used in hypothetical rhetorical statements to dramatically illustrate an impossible disruption to productive activity.
Signifies a change of state under the proposed hypothetical situation, reinforcing the finality of the disruption.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“and do nothing? Then what about development? Are we doing it or not?”
“Everyone, stop crowding around. Get back to work.”
“No matter what, we are colleagues.”
“Let's not talk about work today. Just the two of us brothers,”