这一定是你们东方人 走私古董的办法
“This must be the way you Easterners smuggle antiques.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“I've been at sea longer than you.”
这 一定是 你们东方人 走私古董的 办法
“This must be the way you Easterners smuggle antiques.”
“You Easterners have plenty of methods like this.”
“You cannot fool me; I know all about your shady tricks.”
Labeling a group as 'you Easterners' serves as an exclusionary linguistic device to delegitimize the other party during cross-cultural disputes.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to smuggle antiques
A common crime-related collocation referring specifically to the illicit trafficking of cultural relics or antiquities.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“this might be a place for antique smuggling?”
“You bought those antiques dug up from the beach, didn't you?”
“you said those antiques are real. Really?”
“In reality, he was after my antiques.”
“I hadn't brought all of them with me.”
“But what's in it for an antique trafficker like him?”