怎么就那些人都开车来这买 一买还好几杯
“why do those people drive here to buy it, getting several cups at a time?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“That's the problem. For something this bad,”
怎么就 那些人都 开车 来这买 一买 还好 几杯
“why do those people drive here to buy it, getting several cups at a time?”
“I observed them before. Don't they have a back room?”
“Nobody drives out here just for terrible milk tea—they are clearly buying something else.”
Posing rhetorical questions about abnormal consumer behavior is a standard trope in Chinese investigative dialogues to expose illicit fronts.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
how come; why on earth
Used to express perplexity or question an unexpected phenomenon.
and when they buy, they even...
A spoken pattern expressing surprising scale or compounding actions.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“(At least, I can get drunk for free.)”
“Since you don't eat it, why did you buy it? Alright, forget the breakfast.”
“After all, I can only handle the fancy cars.”
“He comes to drink every day. He calls me when he's drunk,”
“Come on, drink up. When we're done, I'll take you shopping. You'll feel much better after that.”
“He drank. H-He was driving the car.”