这大的馍吃五个 不能吃了
“Five of these big steamed buns? Don't eat any more.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
五个馍了
“She's had five buns?”
这大的馍吃五个 不能吃了
“Five of these big steamed buns? Don't eat any more.”
朱主任在呢
“Director Zhu is here.”
“Control yourself; you are eating way too much and making a scene.”
In communal dining settings, gorging oneself is considered unrefined and disrespectful, especially when a ranking superior is present at the table.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
steamed buns this large
Colloquial northern Chinese expression highlighting the surprisingly large size of the staple food.
cannot eat any more; must stop eating
Used to express an imperative limit or prohibition due to satiety, health, or social decorum.
Signals that a threshold has been reached and marks an imperative change in behavior.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Why watch a kid eat steamed buns?”
“Those four buns were wasted.”
“We barely ate the bag of flat bread too. We need to”
“Yeah, we still want to taste what kind of bun is so magical”
“while the other kids each get one black bun and one white bun?”
“what's wrong with trading one white Mo for two black ones?”