只有李家和骆家帮咱们才能成事
“that we can only get things done with the help of the Li and Luo families?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
这事要传出去 那田家不是无能的表现吗
“Once this gets out, won't it make our family look incompetent—”
只有李家和骆家帮咱们才 能成事
“that we can only get things done with the help of the Li and Luo families?”
那整个徽州 谁还信得过咱们田家 以后这生意
“Then, in all of Huizhou, who will still trust our family? In the future,”
“Forget about our pride; we cannot pull this off alone.”
In traditional Chinese commercial culture, prominent lineage clans often had to balance preserving family prestige (mianzi) against forming pragmatic cross-family alliances to accomplish massive undertakings.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to succeed in accomplishing an undertaking
A concise, classical-sounding verb used in spoken Chinese to denote accomplishing significant goals or business projects.
only if... can...
A fundamental correlative construction indicating a necessary condition for a result.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“how dare we try to sell such low-quality goods to them.”
“And in fact, this is precisely the Li family's determination”
“The Li family took so much from us,”