一直往里走 走到头左拐 你到那儿再问
“Go straight in and turn left at the end. Then ask someone else.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你这什么口音
“What kind of accent is that?”
一直 往里走 走到头 左拐 你到那儿再问
“Go straight in and turn left at the end. Then ask someone else.”
那 往那边走 对 好
“- Go that way? - Yes. Okay.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Chinese urban and neighborhood culture, giving directions often involves sending someone to a major intermediary landmark with the advice to ask locals again from there.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
keep walking straight inside
A highly common direction phrase used when guiding someone into a building, alley, or courtyard.
walk all the way to the end
Use this to indicate walking until an obstruction, wall, or intersection terminates the path.
ask again once you get there
A pragmatic way to give instructions when further navigation beyond a certain point is complex.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“How can they do this? Let's go. Turn right. It's right there.”
“Go all the way in and then turn right.”
“and keep moving forward. [The Late Love] [Screenwriter: He Sheng, Xu Shengli]”