我吃的盐比你走的路都多
“I've eaten more salt than you've eaten rice.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你说呢
“What do you think?”
我吃的盐比你走的路都多
“I've eaten more salt than you've eaten rice.”
“Let me tell you, you know too little about the dirty tricks”
“I know vastly more than you ever will, so listen to me and stop questioning.”
Traditional Chinese culture strongly respects age and seniority, leading older individuals to treat accumulated life experience as indisputable authority.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
have vastly more life experience than someone younger
A classic Chinese idiom used by elders or veterans to flaunt seniority and dismiss youthful dissent.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Why be stingy over a little salt?”
“I want to pick up some food for the trip. That's not enough for you?”
“Why are you so stubborn?”
“This salt is very expensive.”
“(This person just won't listen.)”
“If you don't bring salt and meat,”