我们这个地方 做的是小本买卖
“I'm only running a small business here.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
才次次将我聚云阁的人拒之门外 公子您误会了
“so you repeatedly turned away my men from Juyun Pavilion. You're mistaken, sir.”
我们 这个 地方 做的是 小本买卖
“I'm only running a small business here.”
“How could I have expected that it would catch your eye?”
“We are too insignificant to dare offend you intentionally, so please forgive us.”
In traditional commercial interactions, merchants lower their own status to elevate the customer's face and neutralize potential hostility.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
running a small-scale modest business
A standard self-deprecating formula used by shopkeepers to deflect high expectations or trouble.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Small businesses thrive on low margins and high turnover. That's not bad.”
“Leave the business here to me.”
“You're doing big business here”
“It's just a small-scale business,”
“We did our small business”
“No matter how small the business is, it's still business.”
“From the moment I started my small business,”
“You've seen him build his business from scratch.”
“how are we supposed to do business?”
“We're a small business. We don't have that many cameras.”