让你添人 你就添个这
“I asked for help, and this is it?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
以后就是咱们一员了 伙房缺人
“From now on, she's one of us. We're short on hands.”
让你 添人 你就 添个这
“I asked for help, and this is it?”
娃不是人
“Isn't the kid a person?”
“Are you serious? This kid cannot help us at all in the kitchen!”
Using inanimate pronouns like '这' (this) to refer to a person is a sharp rhetorical tool in northern Chinese to signal that the person lacks utility or value.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to add staff; to recruit more people
A colloquial northern Chinese term used when adding headcount to a team or family.
bring in something/someone like this
A highly dismissive spoken phrase referring to an inadequate person as a mere 'this'.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“They keep saying add more staff. You can't keep asking for help.”
“Bringing her to Shanghai has caused you so much trouble. It's no trouble at all.”
“we've bothered you a lot. Thank you.”
“I've seen many people like you. You're just causing trouble.”
“Sorry to trouble you. Are you cold?”
“who cause me trouble”