还是分两次拿回来的
“The amplifier and the VCD player were brought back in two separate trips.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
那功放跟影碟机
“The amplifier and the VCD player were brought back in two separate trips.”
还是 分两次 拿回来 的
“The amplifier and the VCD player were brought back in two separate trips.”
我就给塞你爷爷床底下了
“I just stuffed them under your grandpa's bed.”
“It took a lot of sneaking around in two separate trips just to get these home!”
In older Chinese households, younger family members often hid expensive entertainment electronics (like DVD players) from thrifty elders to avoid being scolded for wasting money.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
in two separate times / split into two batches
Use '分 + number + 次' when explaining that an action, payment, or delivery was broken up into multiple steps.
to bring back / to take back home
A directional verb complement used when moving an object toward the speaker's home or base.
Forms part of the '是...的' (shì...de) construction (with '是' in '还是'), emphasizing the specific manner (in two trips) in which a past action occurred.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Why did you bring this back?”
“Take it back, or I pay you for it.”
“there'll still be nothing, and I'll have to come back again. That's so inconvenient, don't you think?”
“She's returned it untouched these days.”
“So you didn't bring back a single cent, did you?”
“Would you like to pick them up? Or should we send them to you?”