大半夜你折腾什么呀
“Why are you up all of a sudden?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
时间越长越好吧
“The longer the better, I guess.”
大半夜 你 折腾什么 呀
“Why are you up all of a sudden?”
就数你没用
“You're worthless!”
“Cut it out and go to sleep, you are driving me crazy with all this noise!”
A quintessential Northern Chinese concept denoting restless, exhausting effort that often causes unnecessary trouble or fails to produce meaningful results.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
in the middle of the night; late night
Colloquial term used to emphasize the unreasonable or inappropriate lateness of the hour.
to make a futile fuss; to toss and turn restlessly
A highly expressive spoken verb describing purposeless, chaotic, or disruptive activity.
Heightens the tone of exasperation and disbelief in a rhetorical question.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“What are you doing at this hour?”
“What trouble were you causing last night when you should've been sleeping? Me? Causing trouble?”
“You're up alone in the middle of the night?”
“to stay up all night? Take the buns out. Look at the mess you've made.”