等你什么时候不逃避喝药了
“When you stop dodging your medicine,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你就告诉我呗
“Just tell me.”
等你什么时候 不 逃避 喝药 了
“When you stop dodging your medicine,”
我就什么时候告诉你
“I will tell you.”
“Take your medicine properly, and only then will I tell you.”
Close friends or partners in Chinese culture frequently use playful bargaining and conditional withholding to show care and ensure health compliance.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
wait until whenever...
Paired with a subsequent '我就什么时候' to establish a strict reciprocal condition.
avoid taking medicine
Used to describe evading an unpleasant but necessary chore or medical treatment.
Indicates a change of state, referring to the point when the listener ceases their evasive behavior.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“When will I be done with this medicine?”
“I'll make you take medicine. Why take medicine? I'm not sick.”
“Fei will be fine once she takes the medicine.”
“Who can take responsibility for that? But if she takes it and something happens,”
“that one day I'd stop taking this medicine for good!”
“I've already reheated the medicine twice. If they don't come back to drink it, there's nothing I can do.”