那找个先生起名 不也得花钱吗 来 不管怎么说
“Anyway, you'd have to pay a scholar for that. Please. Really, regardless,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“The name Wanzhi gave my son is just beautiful.”
那找个先生 起名 不也 得 花钱 吗 来 不管怎么说
“Anyway, you'd have to pay a scholar for that. Please. Really, regardless,”
也不能拿你的东西啊
“we shouldn't take anything.”
“Please take this gift; you did me a real favor and deserve to be compensated.”
In Chinese culture, receiving a significant favor such as baby-naming requires reciprocation so one does not uncomfortably owe 'renqing' (interpersonal debt).
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
consult a fortune-teller or scholar
Here '先生' refers traditionally to a geomancer, fortune teller, or learned person hired for naming or divination.
no matter what / in any case
A very useful transitional chunk used to steer past trivial details to emphasize the bottom line.
Forms a rhetorical question asserting that paying someone else would have cost money anyway.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Do you know how people are named?”
“Sir, why don't you help her choose one?”
“I haven't even named it yet.”
“named my child?”
“this name is a bit too grand.”
“you should be the one to name him.”