你捐多少 我捐了两毛 刘克 两毛
“- What about you? - 20 cents. Liu Ke, 20 cents.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我也捐两毛
“I'll give 20 cents too.”
你捐多少 我捐了两毛 刘克 两毛
“- What about you? - 20 cents. Liu Ke, 20 cents.”
我也两毛
“20 cents for me too.”
“We should all give the same token amount so no one stands out or loses face.”
In collective Chinese work-unit or school donation drives, individuals often synchronize their donation amounts to avoid standing out or putting financial peer pressure on others.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
twenty cents (two jiao)
Colloquial spoken term for two fractional monetary units (jiao) in renminbi.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“If you say it, I'll donate.”
“Don't tell me it was 20 cents. - Yeah, 20 cents. - Chen Xiaoping, 10 cents.”
“Can you lend me another twenty cents? I'll pay you back forty,”
“Donate some to me too. I'm pretty broke myself.”
“And when the time comes, you won't see a penny.”
“He donated 10 million for your sake?”