我都磨了两个时辰了
“I've been sharpening it for four hours,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
您这都看到了
“You see it yourself.”
我 都 磨了两个时辰 了
“I've been sharpening it for four hours,”
这不还这样吗
“and it's still like this.”
“Do not blame me for lack of progress; I have worked hard for hours and it is not my fault.”
In historical settings, a 'shichen' corresponds to two solar hours, so two shichen represents a grueling four-hour stretch of sustained manual labor.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
already... (expressing that an extent has been reached)
A common emphatic construction used to stress that a long time or high degree has passed, often with an impatient tone.
four hours (two traditional two-hour blocks)
A traditional Chinese unit of time measurement where one shichen equals two modern hours.
Emphasizes the duration of the ongoing action and adds an exasperated tone to the time spent.
