吃饭的时候呢 多看咱几眼 嘀咕几句
“So at meals, they steal glances and murmur.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
平时工地上活累 又没啥女的
“Work's tough here. And few women here.”
吃饭 的时候呢 多看咱几眼 嘀咕几句
“So at meals, they steal glances and murmur.”
别往心里去
“Don't take it to heart.”
“They are just gawking because they rarely see women here; ignore them.”
Chinese construction sites are predominantly male-dominated environments where the rare presence of female workers often draws overt curiosity and informal chatter.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
during mealtime / while eating
A very common temporal clause structure used to establish background context for an action.
to take a few extra glances / to stare a bit more
Use when describing someone looking repeatedly or staring out of curiosity.
to whisper or mutter a few words
Commonly used to describe people gossiping or murmuring quietly behind someone's back.
Pauses the topic marker to draw the listener's attention to the specific condition of mealtime.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Eat up. Have some more.”
“rely on these businesses to survive. Right? Yes. Everyone, calm down.”
“Even though during the meal just now, he didn't want to say an extra word,”
“It's delicious. Try it.”
“one more person eating here makes no difference.”
“Let's eat. We should enjoy each meal”