AdultLingoCurso de chino › Sección 4 › Unidad 20
💢 Enfado, desahogo y estallidos en chino
Expresa frustración y enfado como un nativo.
🌐 Por ahora, el contenido del curso (significados, notas y explicaciones) está en inglés, tanto en estas páginas como en la app; la interfaz está en español.
“Welcome back aboard. I'm done swallowing my temper at the captain's table, so tonight you'll learn to say you're furious in Chinese, and then how to let it go.” — Rose, tu anfitrión en esta unidad
Practica esta unidad gratis ➔Palabras y frases clave en chino
| Chino | Significado |
|---|---|
| 信号xìnhào | (phone) signal |
| 讨厌tǎoyàn | to hate; ugh, annoying |
| 郁闷yùmèn | frustrated, bummed out |
| 气死我了qì sǐ wǒ le | it makes me so mad |
| 无聊wúliáo | boring, pointless |
| 什么鬼shénme guǐ | what the hell? |
| 真是的zhēnshi de | honestly! for heaven's sake |
| 搞gǎo | to do, to be up to (casual) |
| 搞什么gǎo shénme | what are they playing at? |
| 什么破…shénme pò … | what a crappy… |
| 受够了shòu gòu le | to have had enough |
| 别管我bié guǎn wǒ | leave me alone |
| 气炸qìzhà | to explode with anger |
| 凭什么píng shénme | what gives you the right? |
| 点菜diǎncài | to order food |
| 少管闲事shǎo guǎn xiánshì | mind your own business |
| 消消气xiāoxiao qì | calm down, cool off |
| 生气shēngqì | to be angry |
| 发泄fāxiè | to vent |
| 冷静lěngjìng | calm; to calm down |
| 骂出来mà chūlai | to curse it all out |
| 一个人静一静yí ge rén jìng yi jìng | some quiet time alone |
| 冲着chòngzhe | facing, aimed at |
| 好多了hǎo duō le | much better |
| 说了算shuō le suàn | to have the final say |
| 生闷气shēng mènqì | to sulk, stew in silent anger |
| 有话好好说yǒu huà hǎohǎo shuō | let's talk it over calmly |
| 气坏身体qì huài shēntǐ | to make yourself ill with anger |
| 电话卡diànhuàkǎ | phone card |
| 冷战lěngzhàn | cold war; a couple's silent treatment |
Frases de ejemplo
My phone has no signal again.
I'm really frustrated today.
I'm so unlucky today!
Damn it, what shitty weather!
What gives you the right to order for me?
I'm so angry I could explode.
I need to blow off some steam
I'm much better now.
Una conversación de esta unidad
Xiamen port day. Rose slams down the receiver of an IC-card payphone on the quay. Jack has been waiting for her.
Rose: 气死我了！电话卡里又没钱了。It makes me so mad! My phone card's run out of credit again.
Jack: 怎么了？你跟谁打电话呢？What happened? Who were you calling?
Rose: 他妈妈。打了二十分钟，都是她在说。His mother. Twenty minutes on the phone, and she did all the talking.
Jack: 别生气了。我们去喝杯茶吧？Don't be angry. Shall we go for a cup of tea?
Jack: 好，你说，我听着。OK, go ahead. I'm listening.
Rose: 她说我不能一个人下船，太危险。凭什么？She says I can't go ashore on my own, it's too dangerous. What gives her the right?
Notas culturales
After her mother-in-law-to-be's latest call, Rose goes quiet all afternoon. Lin Xiao asks what's wrong; Rose just says 没事, "nothing", and stares at the sea. What does Lin Xiao most likely conclude?
Rose is sulking: upset, but keeping it in (生闷气).
In mainland China (and across the Chinese-speaking world), 生闷气, literally "to produce stuffy anger", is stewing in silence instead of saying what's wrong. A flat 没事 often means the opposite. Friends don't take it at face value: they ask gently, and keep the door open.
Dilo como un local: 你是不是在生闷气？ — Are you sulking about something?
Lunch in a seafood restaurant on Xiamen's waterfront. A waiter spills soup, and a passenger from the ship stands up and scolds him loudly in front of the whole room. How does that come across in China?
Badly: scolding someone in public makes them lose face, and the scolder looks bad too.
In mainland China, face (面子) matters: being criticised in front of others is humiliating, and the person doing it looks hot-headed and rude. Raise problems quietly, one to one, starting with 不好意思. To calm a public row, people say 有话好好说: "whatever it is, say it nicely."
Dilo como un local: 别吵了，有话好好说。 — Stop shouting; whatever it is, let's talk it over calmly.
Breakfast on deck. Rose is still fuming about the phone call. An elderly passenger, Mrs Zhou, pats her hand: "别生气了，气坏身体不值得。" What is Mrs Zhou telling her?
Don't stay angry: it isn't worth making yourself ill.
Traditional Chinese medicine links anger with the liver (怒伤肝, "anger harms the liver"), and everyday Chinese speaks of anger "breaking" your health: 气坏身体. In mainland China and Taiwan, saying it to someone is caring, a way of putting them first, not a way of dismissing their anger.
Dilo como un local: 别生气了，气坏身体不值得。 — Don't be angry; it's not worth making yourself ill.
Xiamen, summer 2000. Rose wants to call a friend far away, and the payphone is eating her card. A newsstand by the quay has a sign: "IP电话卡". Why do people buy these cards?
They make long-distance calls much cheaper than the normal rate.
Around 2000 in mainland China, IP phone cards (IP电话卡) were the cheap way to call long distance: the call went partly over the internet, at a fraction of the usual long-distance rate. You dialled an access number, then the card number and PIN, then your number. Newsstands and kiosks sold them everywhere, often at a discount.
Dilo como un local: 老板，来一张IP电话卡。 — One IP phone card, please.
At dinner, a married couple at the next table haven't said a word to each other for two days. Lin Xiao leans over and whispers: "他们在冷战。" What does Lin Xiao mean?
They're giving each other the silent treatment after a fight.
冷战, "cold war", is everyday Chinese for a couple's silent treatment: no shouting, just days of not talking. It's common slang in mainland China and Taiwan. Someone has to break the ice first, often with a small gesture rather than a big apology.
Dilo como un local: 我们别冷战了，好吗？ — Let's stop the silent treatment, OK?
Apréndelo bien
En la app, Rose te guía por esta unidad en lecciones cortas: opción múltiple, emparejar y construir frases con fichas, con audio, además de escenas de escucha, chats que reaccionan a tus respuestas, ejercicios de «Lee el ambiente», tarjetas culturales y un episodio de drama. Las palabras que aprendes vuelven en el repaso justo antes de que las olvides. Es gratis y no necesitas cuenta: tu progreso se queda en tu navegador.
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