时间差不多了 我去打工了
“It's time for me to do my part-time job.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
行 没什么问题
“OK, fine.”
时间差不多了 我去打工了
“It's time for me to do my part-time job.”
你这店生意都变好了 你还上班 一个月大几千块呢
“Your business has been better now, so why do you still do the part-time job? It's several thousand yuan a month”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
The term '打工' originally designated migrant manual labor, but is now widely used in Chinese society to refer colloquially to any wage job or employment undertaken to sustain a living.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
time is about up; it's almost time
A standard, highly idiomatic conversational transition used to wrap up a meeting or indicate departure.
to work a job; to do temporary or wage labor
Refers to wage labor or employment under someone else, as opposed to running one's own business.
Marks the change of situation regarding the time and signals readiness to begin the departure action.
