估计还得等一阵子 得等你们厂里
“I think I still have to wait for some time. Until your factory finishes assigning all the new dorms”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“That means you can settle down now. When will you move there?”
估计 还得 等一阵子 得 等你 们厂里
“I think I still have to wait for some time. Until your factory finishes assigning all the new dorms”
把新宿舍都分配完 再把旧宿舍腾出来 才能轮到我
“Until your factory finishes assigning all the new dorms and vacates the old ones before it's my turn.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In socialist-era China, housing was state-owned and allocated through work units (danwei) via seniority-based cascading queues rather than bought on the open market.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
estimate, reckon, probably
Placed at the beginning of a clause to signal an informed guess or prediction.
still have to, will still need to
Indicates that an existing requirement or condition persists into the future.
a period of time, a while
Vague temporal measure referring to an indefinite moderate duration.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“So it should take ten to fifteen days”
“I need to stay a while longer.”
“but now it seems I'll need to wait a few more days.”