对吧 你还跟我讨价还价 结 结
“right? Are you haggling with me? Okay, I'll pay them!”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
书记 我就可以拿
“I'll get the orders,”
对吧 你还跟我 讨价还价 结 结
“right? Are you haggling with me? Okay, I'll pay them!”
结 结
“Okay, I'll pay them!”
“You have no leverage here, stop trying to negotiate and just settle this now.”
Superiors in Chinese workplace contexts often react sternly to subordinates 'bargaining' (讨价还价), viewing it as an affront to established hierarchy.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to bargain; to haggle back and forth
Can refer literally to price bargaining or figuratively to disputing conditions and instructions.
right?; isn't that so?
Used conversationally to seek confirmation or aggressively assert that one's statement is undeniably true.
Softens the rhetorical question while pushing the listener into compliance.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Don't cause unnecessary trouble, right? You think I don't know?”
“People come and go. That's perfectly normal, right? You're still young, lacking experience.”
“are all pairs of eyes eager to devour knowledge, right? If you don't share something, I'm afraid”
“Stop bargaining. Let's settle it like this.”
“Alright, go back to the market and wait for me.”
“Mr. Tan used to teach, right? Exactly. Honestly, when you're not butting heads with me,”