那连娶媳妇钱都不够啊
“That's not even enough to get a wife.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“We'll each have only a little more than 3 million.”
那连娶媳妇钱都 不够 啊
“That's not even enough to get a wife.”
娶媳妇这么费钱呢
“It costs that much to get a wife?”
“This payout is way too small considering what life actually costs.”
In contemporary China, marrying for men often requires hefty bride prices (caili), wedding costs, and real estate, making 'qu xifu' a cultural benchmark for heavy financial pressure.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to take a wife; to get married (for a man)
Colloquial term for marriage from the groom's perspective, frequently associated with traditional marriage costs.
not even enough to...
A pattern used to emphasize insufficiency by showing that even a basic or baseline threshold cannot be met.
Reinforces emotional emphasis and distress at the perceived inadequacy of the amount.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“can't live off our daughter-in-law.”
“They were too poor to get their son a wife,”
“Where will you get the money to marry?”
“had nothing when you got married.”