我经常也是一干就 就十几个小时
“I often worked over ten hours at a stretch.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
在滨海路 我 我是 我就是
“On Binhai Road, I... I just...”
我经常 也是 一干就 就十几个小时
“I often worked over ten hours at a stretch.”
当年修滨海路的时候 那我
“Back when we built Binhai Road, I...”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Chinese workers often take quiet pride in recalling how much grueling manual labor they could endure, viewing perseverance as a badge of honor.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
once starting to work, immediately goes on for (a certain duration)
Use this structure to emphasize prolonged, uninterrupted effort or dedication to a task.
more than ten hours
A common colloquial way to approximate a quantity between 11 and 19.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“You've been doing this for over a week now.”
“It was just one hour. I only spent one hour with him. Really.”
“I've worked day and night for over 10 years!”
“there's just too much I've done.”
“Other options would take over seven hours anyway.”
“despite my ten-odd years' experience,”