你天天除了给我画大饼以外 你还会什么呀
“All you do is make empty promises.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
度过这些困难期 就会让我享福 享福呢
“After tough times, I'd live comfortably. And now?”
你 天天 除了 给我 画大饼 以外 你 还会 什么呀
“All you do is make empty promises.”
这房子不是我买的 我每个月工资给没给你
“I bought this house. I gave you my salary every month.”
“You are all talk and no action, and I am sick of your empty promises.”
A deeply rooted Chinese cultural idiom reflecting the societal disdain for grand, hollow promises that substitute for tangible material security.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to make empty promises or paint an unrealistic rosy picture
Widely used both in personal relationships and corporate settings when someone promises rewards they cannot deliver.
apart from; other than
A fundamental sentence pattern used to set apart an exception or emphasize a singular recurring behavior.
Heightens the rhetorical sharpness and exasperation of the question.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“And stop making empty promises.”
“Trying to sell me dreams again?”
“Otherwise, we won't give you any bread. Sure.”
“Wouldn't that be just making empty promises?”
“They give me endless trouble every day.”
“No need. I'll draw pictures late tonight”