还没学会说话就学会打麻将了
“Before my daughter could even talk, she could already play mahjong.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我这个女儿
“Before my daughter could even talk, she could already play mahjong.”
还没学会说话 就学会 打麻将 了
“Before my daughter could even talk, she could already play mahjong.”
就在麻将桌旁边长大的 吃饭 睡觉都在我棋牌室里
“She grew up by the mahjong table. Eating and sleeping were all in my game room.”
“She was practically born at the mahjong table because of my business.”
Mahjong parlors are deeply woven into neighborhood community life in China, where children of small-business owners often spend their childhoods observing and absorbing the game.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
learned how to do X before even learning how to do Y
A hyperbolic syntactic pattern used to highlight an extraordinary or humorous precocity.
to play mahjong
The standard verb-object collocation for playing mahjong, a ubiquitous leisure activity in China.
Indicates the realization of a completed state and reinforces the comedic contrast.
