买这没用的东西做什么
“but why did he buy this useless stuff?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
吃的就算了
“The food is fine,”
买这 没用的东西 做什么
“but why did he buy this useless stuff?”
是哪家啊
“Which shop is it from?”
“You just wasted money on absolute junk.”
Traditional Chinese domestic values strongly emphasize utility and frugality, making unnecessary purchases a frequent point of familial scolding.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
useless item; junk
Used colloquially to disparage an object (or sometimes pejoratively, a person) that lacks utility.
what for; why
Frequently placed at the end of a rhetorical question in spoken Chinese to convey impatience or challenge an action.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Buying these useless things,”
“What would you buy me that for? Isn't that a waste of money? Why are you being so stubborn?”
“These are all useless things.”