把它们全拿去买猪
“I'll spend every last coin of it on pigs”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
待我回林安
“when I go back to Lin'an,”
把它们全 拿去 买猪
“I'll spend every last coin of it on pigs”
一个子也不给你留
“and leave nothing for you.”
“I'm going to spend every single coin so you won't get a penny to waste.”
In traditional Chinese agrarian society, buying livestock like pigs represented a tangible, productive store of wealth, often contrasted humorously with wasted gambling money.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
take (it) to buy
A practical spoken pattern using '拿' to indicate allocating resources toward a specific purchase.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Still want to raise 100 pigs”
“It is more than enough to feed a pig. Look. Look.”
“I could keep another litter of piglets, that would be even better.”
“Pork!”
“I'm starving. I could eat a whole pig right now.”
“Raising two pigs would have been better than knowing you!”