人家饿不饿你还知道了
“And you would know if he is hungry?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
他不饿 你不用给他送吃的
“He's not hungry. No need for this.”
人家饿不饿你还知道了
“And you would know if he is hungry?”
“Xu has gone all day without one hot bite. Move. Or it'll go cold soon.”
“You don't speak for him, so stop making excuses to get in my way.”
Ensuring someone has eaten hot food is a primary way to express affection and care in Chinese culture, making any interference highly irritating.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
as if you would know
A rhetorical, sarcastic pattern used to reject someone's presumptuous claim of knowing someone else's state.
he / she / other people
Colloquially used to refer to a third party sympathetically or informally instead of using standard pronouns.
Functions rhetorically to seal the sarcastic judgment that the listener is being overly presumptuous.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Hungry? Kind of.”
“Now you know you're hungry?”
“Are you hungry? Yes. Too bad. It's all gone.”
“Are you hungry? Come to my place for a bite.”
“I'm hungry. If you're not busy, go cook me some noodles.”
“Well, I won't make you starve.”