我这徒弟小时候头被门夹了
“My apprentice bumped his head as a kid.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我拦不住嘛
“I couldn't stop him.”
我这徒弟 小时候 头被门夹了
“My apprentice bumped his head as a kid.”
最恨谁拦他
“He hates being stopped.”
“He is an irrational hothead, so don't blame me for not holding him back.”
In Northern Chinese colloquial speech, attributing irrational stubborness to vivid physical accidents like 'head crushed in a door' is a common rhetorical device to disclaim responsibility.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
out of one's mind / acting crazy or foolish
A highly colloquial, humorous, and mildly insulting idiom used to describe irrational or erratic behavior.
Marks completion of the supposed past event, establishing it as an underlying state of irrationality.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“What has that disciple of yours gotten himself into again?”
“What has that disciple of yours gotten himself into again? What are you saying?”
“Your master beat you hard when you were a kid.”
“I took in a good disciple.”
“My disciple isn't bad either.”
“Your master was worried sick.”