这上午就该到家了 都几点了 都该吃晚饭了
“You should arrive this morning. What time is it? It's dinner time. Where did you go?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
这上午就 该到家了 都几点了 都该吃晚饭了
“You should arrive this morning. What time is it? It's dinner time. Where did you go?”
你又上哪儿疯去了
“It's dinner time. Where did you go?”
“Where on earth have you been fooling around all day instead of coming straight home?”
Chinese parents often monitor family members' schedules closely, using meal times as key temporal anchors to scold tardiness.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
look at what time it is / it is so late already
A rhetorical question used to express exasperation at someone's lateness or delay.
should have already
Used to emphasize an unmet expectation that was supposed to happen much earlier.
Marks a change of state and intensifies the sense of overdue time and exasperation.