人家都等你半天了
“I've been waiting for you for ages.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
真是的
“Honestly.”
人家都等你半天了
“I've been waiting for you for ages.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Phrases like 'waiting half a day' (等半天) are common rhetorical devices used by staff or hosts to emphasize urgency without intending literal measurement.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
they / the other party / someone else
Used in spoken Mandarin to refer casually or empathetically to a third party or a client waiting on someone.
wait for ages / wait for a long time
A highly colloquial hyperbole denoting an exasperatingly long wait, not literally half a day.
Indicates the ongoing duration and cumulative annoyance of the completed waiting period.
