什么时候干过这样的活啊
“you've never done this kind of work.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
小姐 咱下回可不去受他那罪了 您在府上
“Miss, let's not suffer like that again next time. When you're in the residence,”
什么时候 干过 这样的活啊
“you've never done this kind of work.”
慢点儿
“Careful.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In historical China, close personal servants identified strongly with their masters' dignity and expressed indignation when nobility was forced into menial labor.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to do physical work or chores
Standard everyday term for manual labor, tasks, or manual chores.
when have you ever done... (rhetorical: never)
Rhetorical question emphasizing that the person has never had to do such hard or unpleasant things before.
Enhances the rhetorical and lamenting emotional tone of the question.
