我记得你们俩是前后脚进的厂
“I remember you two joined the plant right after each other,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你跟他爸爸熟
“You knew his father well.”
我记得 你们俩 是 前后脚 进 的 厂
“I remember you two joined the plant right after each other,”
还拜了一个师父
“and you apprenticed under the same mentor.”
“You two go way back, so you should understand and look out for each other.”
Joining a factory at the same period and sharing the same mentor creates a lifelong kinship-like bond in Chinese working-class culture.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
one after another; in quick succession
A colorful colloquial expression used to describe two people arriving or doing something almost at the same time.
enter the factory to work; get recruited by an industrial plant
Historically significant phrase denoting entering steady industrial employment in state-run factories.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“we should visit the factory before the New Year.”
“"He hasn't worked here yet." "You can't make him work overtime already."”
“is worth a whole factory of mine.”
“Then the accident happened at the factory.”
“We're just practicing in our plant now.”
“he's still working at the plant and that his colleagues”