我卖我的盗版 咱俩井水不犯河水
“We'll just keep out of each other's business.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我卖的可都是正版的 那你卖你的正版
“No, I sell the real thing. I sell pirated copies.”
我卖我的盗版 咱俩 井水不犯河水
“We'll just keep out of each other's business.”
赶紧走
“Get lost.”
“Mind your own business and stay out of my way.”
Invoking idioms like 'well water does not infringe upon river water' serves as an informal pact among street-level operators to maintain peaceful coexistence despite legal ambiguity.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
mind one's own business / each going their own separate way without interference
A classic idiom used during standoffs to propose that neither party cross boundaries or interfere with the other.
the two of us
A highly colloquial northern Chinese term for inclusive 'we' or 'the two of us'.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“We won't cross each other, okay? Not okay.”
“We'll mind our own business from now on.”
“We go our separate ways.”
“From now on, we stay out of each other's business!”
“You sold me out?”
“Don't throw mud at me. You hold that book in the living room”