一家人还不还的 说什么呢 一天天的
“We're family. What are you saying?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
这钱我将来肯定还你们
“I'll pay you back.”
一家人还不还的 说什么呢 一天天的
“We're family. What are you saying?”
妈现在愁的是 你把这钱都拿去买木头了
“What I'm worried about is that you spent all the money on lumber.”
“Don't treat us like strangers by talking about paying us back; we are in this together.”
In traditional Chinese family ethics, resources are often shared collectively, and explicitly insisting on repaying close family members can feel overly distant, like treating kin as outside creditors.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
one family; family members
Commonly invoked to reject formality, polite distancing, or monetary debt between relatives.
day in and day out; all the time
A colloquial northern Chinese filler used to express mild exasperation or affectionate annoyance at someone's repetitive behavior.
Softens the rhetorical question and expresses mild bewilderment or reproach.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“make up for such a mistake.”
“- Pay up! - Pay up now! Pay up!”
“- Pay up now! Pay up! - Pay up now!”
“nothing to each other.”
“We won't make the mortgage in two months, get it?”
“Do you think money grows on trees?”