三个亿
“300 million?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
三 三
“Thr...”
三个亿
“300 million?”
完了嘛 那不
“I'm doomed.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Chinese groups numbers in increments of ten thousand (万) and hundred million (亿), requiring mental adjustment for English speakers used to thousands and millions.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
three hundred million (300,000,000)
A common colloquial way to state large sums using 个 as a measure word before the large unit 亿.
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“30 million may sound like a lot,”
“It's six million yuan.”
“That number sounds familiar.”
“More than 3 million.”
“We can each take more than 30 million.”
“A budget of 30 million. It's a huge project.”