- 七八个 - 也不算多
“- Seven or eight. - That's not so many.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Supplying embroidery to merchants must require a lot of embroiderers, right?”
- 七八个 - 也不算多
“- Seven or eight. - That's not so many.”
“A truly skilled embroiderer can do the work of ten ordinary ones.”
“That headcount sounds small, so there must be something special about them.”
Traditional Chinese craft industries often prized master artisans ('以一当十') over large numbers of mediocre workers.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
not particularly many; not considered a lot
A useful hedging expression used to moderately downplay or assess quantities without sounding overly blunt.
seven or eight
A natural way to state an approximate number by pairing consecutive digits.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Not many. Seriously?”
“More, less, whatever. Keep it.”
“Looks like quite a few.”
“it must not be a small amount.”
“We can probably figure it out. I'm busy.”
“At least three or four people.”