阿田 你不要考验大家的耐心了
“Tian. Don't test everyone's patience.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“the start date has been repeatedly delayed.”
阿田 你不要 考验大家的耐心了
“Tian. Don't test everyone's patience.”
“Stop stalling; we have had enough of your delays and won't wait any longer.”
Instead of saying 'do not test MY patience', invoking 'everyone's patience' (大家的耐心) adds collective authority and social pressure to make the reprimand far more compelling.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
test someone's patience
Collocation used when an ongoing delay, annoying behavior, or stalling is pushing people to their limits.
stop doing / do not ... anymore
A standard prohibitive grammatical pattern used to tell someone to discontinue an ongoing undesirable action.
Combined with '不要' to signal a change of state, demanding that the ongoing annoying behavior cease immediately.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Tian, I know your temper.”
“Tian, you promised me”
“Tian, let me introduce you.”
“Tian, you'll die if you keep this up!”
“Tian, I promised you.”
“Tian, you should know”