你在国营厂 干了那么久了
“You've been worked there for long.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“to find you a job there. Hai.”
你在国营厂 干了那么久了
“You've been worked there for long.”
他们一个月给你多少钱
“What do they pay you monthly?”
“You've wasted enough years in that dead-end state factory for meager pay; join us instead.”
State-owned factories provided lifetime stability (iron rice bowl) but modest wages; modern economic changes often tempt workers to move to lucrative private enterprises.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
state-owned factory
A culturally loaded term referring to public-sector manufacturing units common in twentieth-century and reform-era China.
worked for such a long time
A casual, colloquial way to describe holding a job or performing a task for an extended period.
Marks the continuation and accumulation of a prolonged duration of working up to the present moment.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Don't make a scene here.”
“he's still working at the plant and that his colleagues”
“There are too many people at the factory. I don't remember.”
“As a child of the Third Front Plant,”
“At least it's a state-owned enterprise.”
“is worth a whole factory of mine.”