听说他们是白手起家的
“I heard they built everything from scratch.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
腾达真厉害呀
“Tengda is really impressive.”
听说 他们 是 白手起家 的
“I heard they built everything from scratch.”
“I really want to work here. Me too. Who wouldn't? Exactly.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Self-made business legends (白手起家) are highly revered in contemporary Chinese society as symbols of diligence and meritocracy.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
I hear; it is said that
A standard framing device in conversational Chinese to introduce hearsay, rumors, or secondhand information.
to start from scratch; self-made
A widely used four-character idiom (chengyu) describing an entrepreneur building an empire starting with nothing.
Forms a past narrative construction emphasizing the circumstances under which the founding occurred.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“from scratch and had built it together since we were young.”
“Starting from scratch is hard, of course. But once you have a solid foundation,”
“But he couldn't beat them.”
“but it won't be that easy for them to succeed.”
“I underestimated them before.”
“Qi built Hengshun Salt Bureau”