都莫想再卖出去了
“neither my place nor my relatives' would've sold.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我要是报了警 我的房、亲戚们的房
“If I'd called the police, neither my place nor my relatives' would've sold.”
都 莫想 再卖 出去 了
“neither my place nor my relatives' would've sold.”
我想了一下 还是决定 瞒下这件事
“After thinking it through, I decided to keep it quiet.”
“If we call the police, our real estate values will hit rock bottom and we'll be financially ruined.”
Property represents the vast majority of family wealth in contemporary China; the dread of a property becoming an 'inauspicious house' (haunted/crime-tainted) frequently drives owners to conceal crimes.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
don't even think about; no way to
A regional/dialectal equivalent to '别想', used to emphatically rule out any possibility of something happening.
sell off; sell out
A directional complement phrase commonly used when discussing offloading assets or real estate.
Indicates a newly realized inevitable outcome or change of state.
