刚来的时候 哪有院啊
“When we first came here, there was no courtyard.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
行 没事
“Alright, it's fine.”
刚来 的 时候 哪有 院 啊
“When we first came here, there was no courtyard.”
“You have no idea how basic things were back then—there was nothing.”
Discussing how rough and bare initial conditions were is a common bonding trope among Chinese colleagues and pioneers to contrast past hardship with current progress.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
when (I/we) first arrived
A very common time phrase to set the scene for past experiences or initial impressions.
where is there... / there is no such thing as...
Used rhetorically to strongly deny the existence or possibility of something.
Softens the rhetorical question and gives it a reflective, conversational cadence.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“the hospital might not even be there. Even if the hospital is gone,”
“Where are we going? To the hospital.”
“we need to contact the provincial hospital first”
“Send me the hospital address.”
“Recently at the base hospital,”
“What were you thinking when you built this hospital?”