表示你跟我一样是个牛马
“To say that you're as much of a corporate slave as I am?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你跟我说这干吗
“Why are you telling me this?”
表示你 跟我一样 是 个 牛马
“To say that you're as much of a corporate slave as I am?”
我是失眠了
“I do have insomnia,”
“Face it: you're just another exhausted corporate slave grinding away at work like me.”
Derived from the ancient idiom 'to serve like an ox or horse' (做牛做马), contemporary Chinese youth adopted '牛马' to express cynical disillusionment with exhausting working hours.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
beast of burden; corporate drone / wage slave
Viral internet slang used humorously and cynically by young professionals to describe overworked employees treated like livestock.
just like me; the same as me
Everyday colloquial pattern used to establish solidarity or equivalence between the speaker and the listener.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Serving someone like him”
“we'll work like slaves for her!”
“Because your reaction was exactly like mine.”
“Actually, I'm just like you.”
“I would do the same.”
“who works herself to the bone!”