建成城市之前 这是一个 狗都嫌弃的地方
“to build Yuehai into a city, it was a place no one would want.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
月海在县里边决定给它
“before the county decided”
建成城市之前 这是一个 狗都嫌弃 的地方
“to build Yuehai into a city, it was a place no one would want.”
你说你一个大学生
“You're an educated person,”
“This place used to be an absolute dump, so what on earth made you want to come here?”
Locals often react with disbelief when educated youth leave modern cities to work in impoverished areas, using self-deprecating descriptions of their hometown to probe their motives.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
utterly despised; so terrible that even dogs avoid it
A highly colorful colloquial exaggeration used to describe an extremely unpleasant or desolate place or object.
before; prior to
Used as a postposition after a clause or noun to establish a time reference point.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“but now those places have become cities. Where do you expect them to go?”
“But frankly speaking, you're using city construction as an excuse”
“This is what a city should look like.”
“But building a city from scratch is an adventurous thing.”
“for you to appear in the Capital.”
“The station square is the face of the city.”