他们正在干柴烈火
“They're kind of on fire right now.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
他们是怎样？
“What's going on with them?”
他们正在 干柴烈火
“They're kind of on fire right now.”
我到底错过多少事啊？
“How much have I missed?”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Using classical idioms colloquially for teasing and gossip makes spoken Chinese colorful, witty, and socially bonding among peers.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
a passionate spark; intense mutual attraction
An idiomatic metaphor frequently used in spoken Chinese to describe an explosive romantic or sexual connection.
in the middle of doing...
Placed before an action or descriptive state to emphasize that it is actively unfolding.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“The two were like dry wood meeting fire,”
“(South and North Villages, Tuoxi River) were burned to the ground by a fire.”
“set a raging fire at any moment,”