公中账目皆在此处
“All the common fund accounts are here.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
赵妈妈
“Ms. Zhao.”
公中账目 皆在此处
“All the common fund accounts are here.”
“However, because my mother [General Account of Household Expenses for Gu Mansion, Director of the Treasury] has been bedridden for years, they were neglected.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Controlling the ledgers represents wielding actual executive power over the household staff and family affairs in traditional elite society.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
communal family financial ledgers
Used in historical contexts to refer to the financial records of the shared household.
are all gathered here
A formal, semi-literary phrasing suitable for formally presenting documents or items.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Our accounts are pretty clear now.”
“The accounts are complex. Can you make sense of them?”
“I'll remember this today.”
“that's a score I have to settle with you.”
“How can you not figure out a simple calculation like that?”
“your previous accounts may not be clean.”