把我卖三四回都不够的 我都快愁死了
“is more than selling me three or four times over. I'm worried sick.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
但是夫人 您不知道 这几天去武汉的船票价格真的
“But Madam, you don't know, the price of a boat ticket to Wuhan these days”
把我 卖三四回都不够 的 我都快 愁死了
“is more than selling me three or four times over. I'm worried sick.”
行
“Alright.”
“I cannot possibly afford this myself, so you have to step in and solve this financially.”
Metaphorically offering to 'sell oneself' is a classic rhetorical device in spoken Chinese used to dramatize personal poverty and the insurmountable nature of a financial expense.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
worried sick; worried to death
An exaggerated spoken construction using the suffix '死了' to convey extreme emotional distress.
not even enough
Used with extreme hypothetical conditions to emphasize a huge deficit or shortfall.
Placed at the end of the clause to assert the truth of the hyperbolic statement.
Functions as a degree intensifier in the idiomatic pattern '快...死了'.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I-I don't have that much money.”
“I haven't saved enough.”
“Even this much money isn't enough.”
“You shouldn't give this much. Wait.”
“I can't give you that much help.”
“He has no more money to give. He can only pay for actual expenses.”