他连饭都不给我做
“After my mom left, he didn't even make me food.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
他早就不想要我妈和我了 我妈跑了以后
“He has long wanted to abandon my mom and me. After my mom left, he didn't even make me food.”
他 连饭都不给我做
“After my mom left, he didn't even make me food.”
你出来多久了
“How long have you been out?”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Chinese culture, preparing meals for one's child is considered the most fundamental expression of parental love and basic obligation; failing to do so symbolizes total neglect.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
not even...
An emphatic grammatical construction used to highlight an extreme or basic baseline that was not met.
cook a meal
Standard everyday verb-object phrase for preparing food.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“he wouldn't give me any food.”
“I didn't eat a single bite of her food.”
“She's even too busy to have meals.”
“Why can't I pay you for eating your cooking?”
“No wonder he refused to give me the pills.”
“Why do you keep staring at me instead of eating?”