平白多了几张嘴 不能让她吃亏呀 我呸
“With a few more mouths to feed, we can't let her suffer a loss. Bah!”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
所有的开销都是她付的
“She paid for all the expenses.”
平白多了几张嘴 不能让 她 吃亏 呀 我呸
“With a few more mouths to feed, we can't let her suffer a loss. Bah!”
“What loss is she suffering? This gossipy woman”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In traditional Chinese domestic economics, family members and guests are counted as 'mouths' (嘴), symbolizing resource strain and financial stakes.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
for no reason; gratuitously; out of the blue
Used to describe sudden, unprovoked burdens or occurrences.
gained extra mouths to feed
A traditional metonymy referring to additional people who increase living costs.
bah! / screw that! / nonsense!
A blunt, visceral onomatopoeic exclamation showing intense derision and refusal to accept a premise.
Softens the quoted rhetorical sentiment before the speaker abruptly cuts it off with an angry curse.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“We're already short-handed. Now we've got thirty more mouths.”
“You're just here freeloading?”
“to wrong me for no reason!”
“it was all thanks to Bai this time. My shooting’s not bad,”
“If we have three more mouths, If you insist on taking us there,”
“I spoke out of turn.”