大老远跑来 结果白跑一场
“We came all this way for nothing.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
有劳
“Thank you for your trouble.”
大老远 跑来 结果 白跑一场
“We came all this way for nothing.”
没关系的 兰儿
“It's okay, Xianglan.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Chinese culture, traveling a long distance to help or meet someone represents significant emotional and physical investment, making a fruitless outcome particularly regrettable.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
all the way from a great distance
Commonly used in spoken Chinese to emphasize the hassle or effort of traveling far.
make a wasted trip; go somewhere for nothing
A highly idiomatic phrase used whenever an errand or journey yields zero results.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“You brought him all the way to Shenzhen”
“Did you come all this way to tell jokes?”
“Why did you come all the way here?”
“I came all the way here”
“for us to come all this way.”
“You came from far away. Have some water first.”