你现在一天发三次火 怎么 吃枪药了
“You lose your temper thrice a day now. What? Ate gunpowder?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“And you. I don't even want to say it.”
你现在 一天 发三次火 怎么 吃枪药了
“You lose your temper thrice a day now. What? Ate gunpowder?”
不是我发脾气啊 裴总 你看这网上 全都是恶评
“I'm not losing my temper, Mr. Pei. Look online. It's full of bad reviews.”
“You are making everyone miserable with your constant outbursts; calm down.”
Metaphorical use of 'eating gunpowder' is a quintessential Chinese way to playfully or critically call out explosive bad temper.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to lose one's temper; to get angry
Everyday spoken Chinese expression for showing visible anger.
to have eaten gunpowder; extremely irritable
A vivid Chinese idiom used to describe someone snapping aggressively at everyone without good reason.
Marks an apparent change of state or assumed completion in a rhetorical question.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“we used poison, so why did a fire break out?”
“this guy gets angry every two to three days. Let's stop doing this.”
“Why such a heavy temper?”
“the reason you got so mad that day”
“The fireworks. How did you pull it off?”
“You're in such a rush just for this? Did my dad put pressure on you?”