我们也没求你什么金山银山啊
“We're not asking you for a fortune.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
不可以啊
“the family now?”
我们也 没求你 什么 金山银山 啊
“We're not asking you for a fortune.”
“You finally married a good man.”
“Our demands are completely modest; why are you acting like we're being unreasonable?”
In Chinese marital discussions, families often emphasize that their financial expectations are reasonable by contrasting them with extravagant wealth.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
mountains of gold and silver / immense wealth
Often used in the negative to argue that one is not being overly greedy or materialistic.
didn't even beg/ask you for
Used to minimize one's own requests while putting the listener on the defensive.
Softens the rhetorical question into an emphatic plea or defensive retort.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Never asked you.”
“I seek no grand vision of a tranquil realm.”
“I'm begging you, okay?”
“I beg you. I beg you.”
“I'm begging you.”
“Please, I beg you.”