你可没少忙活呀
“Then you've been quite busy all these years, haven't you?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
那这么多年
“Then you've been quite busy all these years, haven't you?”
你可 没少忙活呀
“Then you've been quite busy all these years, haven't you?”
这么多年我只干了一件事
“All these years, I've only done one thing.”
“You've certainly been hustling non-stop all these years.”
Using double negatives like 'mei shao' (not little) is a quintessential Chinese rhetoric device to express emphasis and understated praise without sounding overly grand.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
did plenty of / not a little bit
Litotes construction commonly used in spoken Mandarin to mean 'a great deal' or 'frequently'.
to hustle, to busy oneself with tasks
Colloquial Northern Mandarin term for bustling about or working hard on various practical matters.
Adds warmth, engagement, and conversational exclamation to the statement.
