你听我说 我跟它算是旧相识
“Hear me out. It's my old acquaintance.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“You took it, and they will riot! You're exaggerating.”
你听我说 我跟它 算是 旧相识
“Hear me out. It's my old acquaintance.”
“We're very familiar with each other. Nothing will happen. Come on, give it to me.”
“Calm down, I know exactly what I am doing so let me take it.”
Claiming familiarity or historical ties (even metaphorically with an entity or object) is a common rhetorical strategy in Chinese culture to establish trust and resolve tensions.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
listen to me / hear me out
A pragmatic attention-getter used to seize the conversational floor and pacify the listener.
old acquaintance / old friend
Use to describe someone or humorously something you have known for a very long time.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Listen to me. Listen.”
“Listen to me. I really didn't know it was a trap.”
“Listen to me.”
“listen to me. I don't want to hear a single word!”
“Listen to me.”
“and listen to me. They have already broken up.”