跟着我卖鱼就没前途了 现在想办法
“He won't have a promising future if he sells fish with me. Recently, I've been considering”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
没有 他现在是实习 没过来帮你忙 坐坐坐
“No, he's an intern now. Didn't he come to help you? Sit down.”
跟着我 卖鱼 就 没前途 了 现在 想办法
“He won't have a promising future if he sells fish with me. Recently, I've been considering”
看看搞点什么事情
“whether he can find a job.”
“I care about your future, and doing menial labor with me will only hold you back.”
Older figures in working-class Chinese families feel a strong moral duty to steer younger relatives toward more respectable and lucrative careers.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
having no future; dead-end
Used colloquially to describe dead-end jobs, relationships, or hopeless endeavors.
to figure out a way; to find a solution
Very frequent spoken idiom indicating actively brainstorming or striving to resolve a problem.
Indicates a realized conclusion or change of situation regarding career prospects.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“But you're just a fishmonger's son”
“Excuse me, how much is the fish?”
“My dad used to ask me to come to the fish market with him.”
“Fish vendors usually keep the dead and injured fish for themselves,”
“Excuse me, how much is the fish?”
“I'll give you five gold bars for it. It's not for sale. If you won't sell it, I'll just keep following you.”