你过来把这信给我抄一遍 凭啥
“Come here and copy this letter for me. Why should I?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“And if I did know, I wouldn't tell you.”
你 过来 把这信 给我 抄一遍 凭啥
“Come here and copy this letter for me. Why should I?”
“I'm asking you to assist the Security Section. And if I don't?”
“Who do you think you are to order me around? I have no obligation to do that.”
In historical Chinese work units (danwei), security sections (baoweike) wielded semi-police authority, and defying them was an explicit act of rebellion against administrative control.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
on what grounds; why should I
A highly colloquial, northern Chinese expression used to aggressively challenge someone's authority or unfair demands.
copy once / transcribe
Common collocation indicating the action of writing out a duplicate of a text.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“"innocent until proven guilty" 1000 times.”
“please help me send this letter.”
“Have you received the letter I wrote to you?”
“♪ In this world, is there anyone ♪ Then have you read all the letters ♪ Smarter than anyone else? ♪ I wrote to you?”
“The arrival time of this letter is suspicious.”
“Hello, any letters for me today? No.”