我是想说人不能忘本 什么是本啊
“I'm just saying, don't forget where you came from. And where is that?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你管我有没有女朋友呢
“Why do you care if I have a girlfriend?”
我是想说 人 不能忘本 什么是 本啊
“I'm just saying, don't forget where you came from. And where is that?”
“Beating you up, that's where! Log in. Let me finish eating first.”
“Don't abandon your friends just because of girls; remember who was always there for you.”
Close male friends in China frequently use dramatic moral idioms like 'forgetting one's roots' in jest when one gets a girlfriend or ignores the group.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to forget one's roots or humble beginnings
Commonly used both seriously to condemn ingratitude and playfully among close friends when someone acts aloof.
what I meant to say is...
Useful conversational filler when clarifying or defending one's conversational point.
Adds a rhetorical, slightly dramatized tone to the open-ended question.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“He said he couldn't forget his origin.”
“Everyone is saying he has betrayed us.”
“What does it mean? Still thinking about her?”
“You can remember him, but you can't hurt yourself by missing him too much.”
“What can be forgotten is forgotten.”
“Have you all forgotten what you said?”