都火烧尻子了 快快想想咋办吧 咋办
“We're out of time here. Hurry up and think of something. What can we do?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
行了 行了 行了
“Enough, enough.”
都 火烧尻子 了 快快 想想 咋办 吧 咋办
“We're out of time here. Hurry up and think of something. What can we do?”
烧
“Burn them.”
“We are totally screwed if we do not act right now, stop dawdling!”
Northern and regional Chinese often use graphic, visceral bodily metaphors like burning backsides to vividly communicate extreme urgency.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
fire burning one's backside; in imminent and dire trouble
A highly colloquial, earthy northern dialect idiom used when a crisis is dangerously urgent.
think about what to do
A common informal spoken chunk combining the standard verb with regional dialect for 'what to do'.
Signifies a change of state, stressing that the critical situation has already arrived.
Softens the urgent demand into an urgent plea or solicitation for ideas.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“The trouble is at her doorstep now.”
“I'll cook them later so everyone gets some meat.”
“and throwing his weight around my turf?”
“and destroy the whole lot.”
“and take it to your grave. Is that true?”
“Guess how we handled the fire breathing? How?”