也不白做 咱们也得吃
“It won't be in vain. We can eat it.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
怎么也不说一声啊 那我俩这不是白做了
“Why didn't he tell us? Then it's all in vain!”
也不 白做 咱们 也得吃
“It won't be in vain. We can eat it.”
子秋
“Ziqiu,”
“Don't be upset; it is not wasted cooking because we still need to eat anyway.”
In Chinese domestic culture, minimizing wasted emotional energy by pointing out basic utility (like having food for oneself) is a typical way to ease disappointment.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to do something in vain; wasted effort
Prefixing a verb with '白' indicates that the action yielded no useful result or went unappreciated.