老干坐地起价的事情
“he often jacks up prices whenever he wants.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
仗着这一点
“Relying on this,”
老干 坐地起价 的事情
“he often jacks up prices whenever he wants.”
“That person has no business ethics and will squeeze us for every penny.”
In Chinese business culture, leveraging backing or scarcity to jack up prices violates principles of long-term mutual trust (chengxin).
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
raising prices on the spot / taking advantage of a situation to jack up prices
A common four-character idiom used to criticize predatory or extortionate pricing practices.
always doing things like...
A colloquial way to express habitual engagement in undesirable actions.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Those guys in the sales department wanted to raise the price.”
“But as soon as they moved things down, they jacked up the price,”
“You've committed many evil deeds.”