咱不能恩将仇报 毁了人家买卖吧
“but we shouldn't bite the hand that feeds us and ruin her business.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
不报恩也就算了
“It's one thing not to repay her,”
咱 不能 恩将仇报 毁了 人家 买卖吧
“but we shouldn't bite the hand that feeds us and ruin her business.”
对不起
“I'm sorry.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Repaying kindness is a bedrock of traditional Chinese morality; '恩将仇报' carries immense social stigma and moral condemnation.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
repay kindness with malice / bite the hand that feeds you
A very common four-character idiom (chengyu) used to criticize ingratitude.
ruin someone's business/livelihood
A colloquial idiom; '人家' casually refers to another party or 'them'.
Softens the rhetorical question into a strong nudge demanding agreement on moral consensus.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“you to bite the hand that feeds you.”
“but you bit the hand that fed you”
“instead of giving us a hard time.”
“Hey. What's your problem? You're being ungrateful.”
“You're biting the hand that feeds you. I saved your skin yesterday.”
“that you really repaid kindness with malice?”