易青娥 太啬皮（吝啬）了 至少捐一毛
“- Yi Qing'e. - Too stingy. At least give 10 cents.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
啬皮（吝啬） 啬皮（吝啬） 才五分哪 有钱不交
“So stingy. Stingy. Only 5 cents. She has money but won't give.”
易青娥 太 啬皮（吝啬） 了 至少 捐一毛
“- Yi Qing'e. - Too stingy. At least give 10 cents.”
她要吃多少饭啊 一毛都捐不出来 太抠门了吧
“How much can she possibly eat? She can't even spare 10 cents. That's way too tightfisted.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In collective Chinese settings, donations are frequently made publicly where failure to match group expectations triggers harsh communal judgment and loss of face.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
too stingy / extremely miserly
A regional dialectal expression (Shaanxi/Northwestern) meaning stingy or cheap, equivalent to 太抠门了 in standard Mandarin.
at least
Use this adverb to set a baseline or minimum expectation in conversation.
Functions as an intensifier marking an excessive degree when paired with '太'.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Yi Qing'e! It really is you!”
“Yi Qing'e! It really is you!”
“Yi Qing'e. Don't act like you can't hear me.”
“Yi Qing'e already has the upper hand.”
“Yi Qing'e didn't want him to leave.”
“(Yi Qing'e watched them) (leave one after another,)”