你这是分配到哪里工作了
“where were you assigned to work?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
吃 费霆
“Eat. Fei Ting,”
你这是 分配到哪里工作 了
“where were you assigned to work?”
奶站
“The milk station.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In planned-economy China, graduates and youths were directly assigned jobs by the government rather than applying on the open market.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
assigned to (a workplace/location)
A historical/sociological term referring to state-allocated job placements in socialist-era China.
Indicates a newly completed state or realization of a life event.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Where did you work before?”
“is a place where you did your part-time job, right?”
“You can find work anywhere, right?”
“you will be officially assigned to where you are needed. During this period,”
“the state assigned you a job. I didn't take it.”
“Jobs are not that easy to find nowadays.”