哪有闲钱给他们
“Where would we get the spare money for them?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
虽然李家十年重税已经结束 但如今墨坊生意惨淡
“Although our family's 10 years of heavy taxation have ended, business at the workshop is now bleak.”
哪有闲钱 给他们
“Where would we get the spare money for them?”
我们啊 何尝不想 给他们多发些工钱
“We also want to pay them more.”
“We simply do not have the money, so stop expecting us to be generous.”
In Chinese commercial and social interactions, openly emphasizing hardship is a conventional pragmatic buffer to deflect financial requests or demands for charity.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
where is there...; there is no...
A rhetorical construction used to strongly negate the availability of a resource or validity of an assertion.
spare money; surplus cash
Refers specifically to discretionary funds available beyond essential operational or living expenses.
