我家就得赔得干干净净
“my family will lose absolutely everything.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
可是如果没有这墨方
“without that ink recipe...”
我家 就 得赔 得 干干净净
“my family will lose absolutely everything.”
祯娘就算嫁给我
“Even if Zhen marries me...”
“If we do not get this formula, we are completely ruined.”
In traditional Chinese commercial families, the fortune of the business directly dictates the personal survival, status, and marriage prospects of descendants.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
completely clean; down to nothing
A reduplicated adjective used adverbially to emphasize total depletion, loss, or thoroughness.
to suffer financial loss to the extent of
Used with a complement of degree to vividly describe the magnitude of a business loss.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“without paying me any compensation.”
“Why should I pay?”
“They're losing money and still this happy.”
“We can't risk breaking anything we can't afford.”
“There's no way I can find a loophole.”
“He's losing money?”