要是还有别人呢 多一个人多一万
“If there's someone else? 10,000 yuan per person.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我一个人住
“I'll live alone.”
要是 还有 别 人呢 多一个人多一万
“If there's someone else? 10,000 yuan per person.”
成交
“Deal.”
“Don't try to cheat me by bringing extra people along without paying.”
Chinese commercial transactions often involve explicit conditional boundaries set early to avoid future disputes and ambiguous loopholes.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
if / in case
A common colloquial conjunction used to introduce a hypothetical condition.
an extra ten thousand for each additional person
A symmetrical colloquial pattern (多 A 多 B) used to link proportional increases.
Marks a hypothetical rhetorical follow-up question, prompting the listener to consider the scenario.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“There was no one else.”
“There are plenty of people worse off than him. How do they date?”
“Where... Where is he? Never mind that now.”