什么 四成
“What? 40 percent?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
什么 四成
“What? 40 percent?”
你干啥呀
“What's wrong with you?”
“Are you out of your mind? There is no way I'm giving you forty percent!”
In oral business dealings, numbers followed by '成' (e.g., 三成, 四成) are preferred over percentage points (百分之四十) for rapid, intuitive bargaining.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
forty percent (40%)
Traditional Chinese proportion system where one '成' equals ten percent (10%).
what?!
Used as an abrupt interjection indicating extreme disbelief or shock at what was just heard.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Profit. 40 percent of the profits.”
“Four. We have four people. Got it!”
“Getting thirty percent is already too much.”
“Profits are split 40/60. You get 60%, I get 40%?”
“How did the four of you do it?”
“Forty thousand?”