一个馒头 挣一毛钱 三百个馒头
“If I make 10 cents per bun, 300 buns would be...”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
回答正确
“Bingo.”
一个馒头 挣一毛钱 三百个馒头
“If I make 10 cents per bun, 300 buns would be...”
“Thirty yuan. Clever you. If I can sell buns”
“Do the math—if we sell three hundred buns, we can actually make decent money.”
Many ordinary working-class families in urbanizing China rely on small food-vending ventures where tiny margins accumulate into essential household income.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
earning ten cents / a dime
Used in colloquial discussions of razor-thin profit margins in grassroots commerce.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“would be enough to feed a poor family for ten years.”
“♪ She's so stunning ♪ He doesn't have 100 yuan to his name. ♪ I deeply fell in love with her ♪”
“There's always more money to be made,”
“This little? It's not even enough for one brown sugar cake.”
“it's 30 mace a jin.”
“You have to make 2000 a month just to cover your lease.”