你小子现在爬格子能挣钱了是吧
“So now that you're making money writing,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
不是你 你打你的 打你的
“No, you keep playing.”
你小子 现在 爬格子 能挣钱 了 是吧
“So now that you're making money writing,”
对女朋友呼来喝去的
“you can just boss your girlfriend around?”
“Don't get cocky just because you are making a little cash now.”
In close Chinese social relationships, peers often tease someone who has found financial success to keep them grounded and prevent them from becoming haughty.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to write for a living (literally: to climb grids/manuscript squares)
A humorous, slightly dated idiom referring to professional writing or drafting articles by hand or keyboard.
you brat; you rascal
An affectionate or teasing informal address used among close male friends or from elders to younger men.
Marks a change of state, indicating the listener has now started earning money.
Solicits confirmation with a rhetorical and slightly provocative edge.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Normally, that should pay well.”
“would you kindly crawl out yourself?”
“I really can't make it up there.”
“and lose money, right?”
“He's really here to make money.”
“This guy is something.”