两块钱 都够我卖四碗馄饨的了
“Two yuan is what I get from selling four bowls of wontons.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我今天在那儿看见 好多人点歌 一首歌两块钱
“Today, I saw lots of people ordering songs there. Two yuan per song.”
两块钱 都 够我卖四碗馄饨的了
“Two yuan is what I get from selling four bowls of wontons.”
我就想着 要是我也有 这么一台机器的话
“So I was thinking if I had a machine like that too,”
“Singing makes easy money, whereas I break my back selling cheap noodles.”
Street vendors and small entrepreneurs in reform-era China frequently benchmark profitability against the hard labor of selling street food.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
enough to...; more than sufficient to...
Emphasizes that a quantity or amount exceeds an expected threshold or benchmark.
two yuan (colloquial)
Standard spoken Chinese term for monetary amount using '块' instead of '元'.
Used together with '都够……的' to emphasize the degree and finality of the realization.
