十几家舞厅 每天出入这些地方的人 有成百上千个
“Yuehai has over 20 karaoke bars and a dozen dance halls now. Hundreds of people visit these places every day.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
不是 师父 咱们现在月海 有二十几家歌厅
“Wait, Master. Yuehai has over 20 karaoke bars and a dozen dance halls now.”
十几家舞厅 每天出入这些地方的人 有 成百上千 个
“Yuehai has over 20 karaoke bars and a dozen dance halls now. Hundreds of people visit these places every day.”
“Does it mean they're all indecent and dubious?”
“You cannot paint an entire demographic as criminals just because they frequent entertainment venues.”
In transitional China, ballrooms (wuting) and karaoke halls were often viewed with moral suspicion by traditionalists, requiring rational voices to push back against stereotypes.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to frequent / go in and out of these venues
A neutral-to-formal phrasing often used in policing, security, and investigative discussions.
hundreds and thousands / by the hundreds
A set idiomatic expression used to describe large, unmanageable quantities of people or things.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“so many problems in the dance hall.”
“The dance hall is flourishing too—”
“Our dance hall's business will surely keep booming.”
“The dance hall tonight is the main event.”
“We depend on this dance hall to survive.”
“Why come to the dance hall instead?”