你一直在喊娘呢
“you kept calling for your mother.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
难怪救你的时候
“No wonder when I saved you,”
你一直在喊娘呢
“you kept calling for your mother.”
大叔
“Mr. Zhao!”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Chinese culture, crying out for one's mother when terrified, in pain, or near death is seen as the most primal, instinctive human reflex.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
continuously; all the while
Use this structure before a verb to indicate that an action persists without interruption over a period of time.
Softens the statement while mildly drawing attention to an ongoing past fact.
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“to keep calling me "Mother".”
“I got no chance to call her Mother.”
“when you cause kerfuffles every now and then,”
“I am here for you.”
“You have to talk to your mother about everything.”
“Don't listen to your mother.”