耀宗明天就来工地上班 您这么大岁数 就别折腾了
“Yaozong will come to work at the site tomorrow. At your age, please don't make a fuss anymore.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Ms. Xia has agreed to your request.”
耀宗明天就来工地上班 您 这么大岁数 就 别折腾了
“Yaozong will come to work at the site tomorrow. At your age, please don't make a fuss anymore.”
“Come on, come on! Get on. Let them wheel you back.”
“You got what you wanted, so please stop creating a scene and go home.”
In Chinese social conflicts, businesses or managers often yield to elderly troublemakers because public confrontation with the elderly is socially condemned and physically risky.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to toss about / to cause trouble / to expend pointless effort
Very frequently used in colloquial Mandarin to describe unnecessary commotion, overexertion, or repetitive troublemaking.
at such an advanced age
Used to invoke someone's age either as a sign of deference or to argue that strenuous or unruly activity is inappropriate for them.
Functions in an imperative negative construction (别...了) to signal cessation of the ongoing disruptive behavior.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Yaozong is the only male heir of the Luo family for three generations! How can you run things this way, little girl?”
“Okay. Yaozong, since you're coming to work tomorrow, no more causing trouble!”
“Yaozong! Calm down. Calm down. What are you trying to do?”
“Ms. Xia. Luo Yaozong fell from a building at the construction site.”
“But it's all construction sites still building things up.”
“I haven't been to the site in ages. I'm anxious.”