我们也是出了大力气的
“And today, we worked hard too,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
它 它不仅仅是 而且你看今天啊
“after the typhoon hit. And today, we worked hard too,”
我们 也是 出了大力气 的
“And today, we worked hard too,”
“unloading this entire truck. Charging this much”
“We worked our tails off, so this meager pay is practically an insult.”
In Chinese bargaining and workplace culture, highlighting 'kulao' (toil and sweat equity) is a standard rhetorical strategy to justify fair treatment or dispute meager pay.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to exert immense effort; to work extremely hard
Use this phrase to emphasize the heavy physical toil or significant trouble put into completing a task.
Functions within the '是...的' construction to assertively stress the reality of the effort expended.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“we try so hard”
“and do our best.”
“Even though we're working late, we still need”
“That's good. This kind of mental work takes a lot out of you.”
“Everyone worked hard today.”