一大堆人给你说好话
“and everyone else spoke up for you.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你米兰姨 眼镜导演 还有大锤叔
“Aunt Mi Lan, Director Glasses, Uncle Dachui,”
一大堆人 给你 说好话
“and everyone else spoke up for you.”
黄正经也是没办法
“Huang Zhengjing had no choice.”
“You owe a lot of people favors because everyone went out of their way to back you up.”
Calling upon personal networks to 'speak good words' is a vital mechanism in Chinese social life (Guanxi) to resolve dilemmas and show solidarity.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to put in a good word / to intercede
Commonly used when someone speaks favorably of another person to an authority figure to solve a problem or mitigate penalties.
a whole crowd of people / a ton of people
Colloquial quantifier used to exaggerate or stress a large number of individuals involved.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“everyone is lying?”
“the kind man everyone praised.”
“People in the group chat are just spreading rumors.”
“It seems that there are quite a lot of them.”
“We had so much fun chatting together.”
“She said quite a lot.”