撞它四十年 你就知道了
“Do it for forty years and you'll see.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
四十
“Forty.”
撞它四十年 你 就知道了
“Do it for forty years and you'll see.”
不行
“No.”
“You have barely started, so stop questioning it until you've put in decades of hard work.”
In traditional Chinese practice and craft culture, intellectual explanations are considered secondary to decades of physical repetition and bodily realization.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
then you will understand; you will see
Used when advising someone who doubts advice, indicating that experience will prove the speaker right.
Indicates a future resulting state or realization once the condition has been met.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Forty years of ups and downs.”
“Ten years later, I'll be pushing forty.”
“Forty days have passed in the blink of an eye.”
“and enduring that 40 strokes of the cane— I just think...”
“"I've spent over a decade in this industry."”
“Over these past twenty-plus years, I've done plenty of bad, rotten things.”