就算你们快马加鞭 不吃不喝
“Even if you ride nonstop, no food, no rest,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“The Snow Mountain is at least a thousand li from here.”
就算 你们 快马加鞭 不吃不喝
“Even if you ride nonstop, no food, no rest,”
也得数十日才能到吧
“it'll take you dozens of days to get there.”
“Stop rushing blindly; it is physically impossible to get there quickly.”
Chinese rhetorical strategy frequently grants an extreme, almost impossible concession to firmly dismantle unrealistic expectations.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
even if; even supposing
Introduces an extreme hypothetical concession in conversational Mandarin.
at full speed; spurring the horse on
A classic idiom meaning to push forward at maximum possible speed without delay.
without eating or drinking
Used hyperbolically to denote working or traveling continuously without any rest.