我跟你说 这开店九死一生
“You know what, it's really hard”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
那就好
“Good.”
我跟你说 这开店 九死一生
“You know what, it's really hard”
特别不容易
“to run a shop.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Chinese culture, offering unvarnished, sobering reality checks about business risks is seen as an act of genuine care and loyalty rather than discouragement.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
a nine-in-ten chance of death; a very narrow escape; extremely risky
An idiomatic four-character idiom (chengyu) used hyperbolically in spoken Chinese to stress that an undertaking is fraught with peril.
let me tell you; listen to me
A conversational discourse marker used to grab the listener's attention before making an emphatic point.
