我质问宁，“你打算喝西北风吗？”
I asked Ning, "Do you intend to Hexibeifeng it?"

我总不能靠喝西北风过日子！
I can't live on air!

我恐怕我要喝西北风了。
I am afraid that I will have to eat glass.

这些老板指望他们的工人喝西北风过日子。
The bosses expect their workmen to live on air.

娟问我“寄钱回去给我，我们喝西北风啊？”
Juan asked me, "send money back to me, we Hexibeifeng ah?"

可是我不能喝西北风！（可是我需要钱呀！）
But I need the money!

夏天就是不好，穷的时候，连西北风也喝不到。
summer is not good, poor, even the north-west winds are also drinking less.

我觉得恋爱也是需要钱的，没有钱难道去喝西北风吗？
Do I feel the in love is to need money, have no a money difficult way to drink northwest breeze?

“你喜欢喝西北风还是喜欢喝猪奶?”用英语怎么说?
Which do you like drinking better, the western wind or the pig' mike?

这么过下去，到头来，全家非得一起去喝西北风不可。
So go down too, in the end, family have to goes together drink the northwest wind-have nothing to eat cannot.

要不是我有些积蓄，靠他那几个钱恐怕我们早就喝西北风啦！
If it weren't for me some savings, depend his that a few money perhaps we early drink northwest breeze!

可是事情是事情，我不图点什么，难道教我一家子喝西北风？
But business is business. You expect me to come out of this empty-handed and let my family eat the northwest wind?

可是事情是事情，我不图点什么，难道教我一家子喝西北风？
You expect me to come out of this empty-handed and let my family eat the northwest wind?

哼，如果，如果，如果！如果要能当锅用，补锅匠就喝西北风。
Ah! if, if, if! If ifs and ans were pots and pans there'd be no need of thinkers.

哼，如果，如果，如果！如果要能当锅用，补锅匠就喝西北风。
ifs and ans were pots and pans there'd be no need of thinkers.

如果真的在广州、上海的大世界，我肯定是日光族，喝西北风过日子。
If you are really in Guangzhou, Shanghai, Big World, I am sure that sunlight race, Hexibeifeng live.

只有爱情而没有物质的那种“喝西北风”式的浪漫，已经无法被大多数人所认同和接受。
Only love without material kind of "wind" of romantic, most people have not been recognized and accepted.

“是的，”猫回答，“那准会把你美得就像把你那尖尖的舌头伸到窗外去喝西北风一样。”
Yes, answered the cat, you will enjoy it as much as you would enjoy sticking that dainty tongue of yours out of the window.

“是的，”猫回答，“那准会把你美得就像把你那尖尖的舌头伸到窗外去喝西北风相同。”
Yes, answered the cat, you will enjoy it as abundance as you will enjoy sticking those dainty tongue of yours out of the window.

“是的，”猫回答，“那准会把妳美得就像把妳那尖尖的舌头伸到窗外去喝西北风一样。”
Yes, answered the cat, you will enjoy it as much as you would enjoy sticking that dainty tongue of yours out of the window.

娱乐市场直截了当。出唱片如果能卖出去，办音乐会如果满座，你就能几百万几百万地赚。要是没什么反响那就等着喝西北风吧。
The entertainment market is straightforward. Make recordings that sell, fill stadiums for your concerts, and you earn millions. Fail to make an impact and you earn nothing.

例：爸爸吃饭的时候说：“不能总是因为家里的事儿影响我的工作，这么大一家子，就靠我一个人的工资吃饭，如果我失业了，大家喝西北风去呀？”
Ex. :On the dinner table father said:"I shouldn't be bothered with too many domestic affairs. Such a big family all live on my own salary, in case I was jobless, what will we eat?"

例：爸爸吃饭的时候说：“不能总是因为家里的事儿影响我的工作，这么大一家子，就靠我一个人的工资吃饭，如果我事业了，大家喝西北风去呀？”
Ex. :On the dinner table father said:"I shouldn't be bothered with too many domestic affairs. Such a big family all live on my own salary, in case I was jobless, what will we eat?"