你们家这两天总是死人
“People keep dying in your family these days.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
但不是对不起你
“but I haven't wronged you.”
你们家这两天总是死人
“People keep dying in your family these days.”
“Everyone in the lane knows that you jinxed them!”
“All these deaths prove you are a cursed person who ruins everyone.”
A deeply rooted patriarchal superstition where misfortunes or deaths in a household are blamed on an individual's astrological or spiritual incompatibility (jinxing).
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
these past couple of days; recently
Frequently used in spoken Chinese to refer broadly to the very recent past.
always; continuously
Used before a verb to emphasize the frequent, repetitive occurrence of an event, often with an annoyed tone.
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“So embarrassing.”
“My family is dead.”
“He said his whole family is dead.”
“Someone's dead…”
“to prevent more deaths from happening here.”
“in this pond?”