我这苦口婆心的一个多钟头了
“I've been advising for more than an hour.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我把她衣服弄脏了
“(I spoiled her outfit?)”
我这 苦口婆心 的一个 多 钟头 了
“I've been advising for more than an hour.”
“Give me some reaction, at least.”
“Say something already; stop ignoring my exhausting efforts to help you solve this!”
In Chinese dispute settlement, mediators or community officials often invest prolonged verbal effort (苦口婆心) to reconcile disputants before resorting to formal legal penalties.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
painstakingly and earnestly exhorting; advising with patient and maternal persistence
An idiom frequently used to emphasize the speaker's good intentions and exhausting effort in counseling someone.
hour
Common everyday spoken Northern Chinese equivalent to '小时'.
Indicates the ongoing accumulation of time up to the present moment, adding emphasis to the speaker's exhaustion.
