这笔账我要跟你算清楚
“that's a score I have to settle with you.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
但是你对付我老师
“But as for what you did to my teacher,”
这笔账 我要 跟你 算清楚
“that's a score I have to settle with you.”
怎么算啊
“How will you settle it?”
“You crossed the line by going after my teacher, and you will pay for it.”
In Chinese culture, interpersonal moral debts, injuries, and slights are often conceptualized through accounting terminology (算账), framing retribution or dispute resolution as restoring balance.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
this score; this debt
Commonly used metaphorically to refer to a grudge, wrongdoing, or dispute that needs resolution.
to settle clearly; to square away
Used both literally for balancing financial books and idiomatically for evening out scores or settling conflicts.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“and settle all these accounts with him one by one.”
“I'm settling a score.”
“I'll remember this today.”