还请他们吃了很多东西
“and brought them a lot of food.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“His basketball teammates said that his real dad came to see him”
还 请他们吃了很多 东西
“and brought them a lot of food.”
牙疼牙疼
“I'm having a toothache!”
“He really splashed some cash to make a good impression on everyone.”
Buying food or snacks for a child's peers (请客) is a standard Chinese social strategy for an adult to establish favor and show magnanimity.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
treat them to a meal / buy them food
A core everyday structure used to describe picking up the tab for others.
a lot of things / plenty of food
A standard casual quantifier phrase referring to a variety of edible items.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I wined and dined them hard,”
“We just ate so much. How could we eat more?”
“than you have eaten rice.”
“I think they can cook.”
“I'll treat him to a feast for 3 days.”
“he often brought us food.”