别看吊牌价 我折上折买的 真不贵
“Don't look at the tag price. I got an extra discount. It wasn't expensive.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“This, this is too expensive. You should return it.”
别看 吊牌价 我 折上折 买的 真 不贵
“Don't look at the tag price. I got an extra discount. It wasn't expensive.”
这也是新年礼物 不得拒收
“This is a New Year's gift too. You can't refuse.”
“Please don't feel guilty about the price, I really want you to have this.”
In Chinese culture, receiving an overly expensive gift incurs a heavy burden of social debt (renqing), so the giver must actively downplay the cost to maintain interpersonal harmony.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
additional discount on top of a sale / double discount
Widely used in retail and bargaining contexts to describe stacked promotional price cuts.
original tag price / list price
Refers strictly to the printed retail price on a garment's tag before discounts.
Functions within the emphatic construction to assert that the purchase was indeed made with stacked discounts.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“The purchase price is half cheaper than normal. Even more than that.”
“Hainan tickets have skyrocketed”
“if it's really this cheap.”
“is even higher than market price. Then sell it to him.”
“Make it cheaper. It's only this cheap because I'm closing up.”
“That expensive? There are even scalpers reselling them!”