利息 利滚利
“Interest—compound interest,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
连利息都还不上
“I can't even pay off the interest.”
利息 利滚利
“Interest—compound interest,”
越滚越多
“it just keeps piling up.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Informal and predatory lending practices often lead vulnerable borrowers into spiraling compound interest debts that are impossible to settle through standard income.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
compound interest / snowballing debt
An idiomatic four-character structure used in spoken Chinese to describe vicious cycles of compounding financial or metaphorical burdens.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I'll pay you both principal and interest.”
“Consider the extra money as interest.”
“Those who have what it takes would have shown it by now.”
“And we're charging interest. Hey, Xiaoyou.”
“Profit. 40 percent of the profits.”
“Hate to see you lose all that interest.”