计算着他们每一斤两的价格
“(calculating their value down to every last detail.)”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
自私的父母
“(The selfish parents)”
计算着他们每一 斤两 的价格
“(calculating their value down to every last detail.)”
这些父母
“(These parents)”
“They don't love their children at all—they just view them as meat to be weighed and sold for profit.”
Terms like '斤两' (catties and ounces) frequently symbolize cold commercial transaction, evoking market butcher shops when applied cynically to human relationships.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
weight; catties and ounces (figuratively: worth or bargaining value)
Derived from traditional Chinese units of weight (jin and liang), often used metaphorically to mean physical substance or exact pricing.