你就不怕我再坐地起价
“Not afraid I'll jack up the price again?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
这么直白
“So blunt?”
你 就不怕 我再 坐地起价
“Not afraid I'll jack up the price again?”
不怕
“No.”
“You are giving away your position too easily—aren't you worried I'll exploit that?”
Calling out unethical tactics like 'raising prices on the spot' in a frank manner can serve as a tactical probe to measure the counterpart's confidence and bottom line.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to hike up the price on the spot / to take advantage of an urgent situation to raise prices
A very common four-character idiom in commercial bargaining describing extortionate price increases.
Aren't you worried that...?
Commonly used in spoken Chinese to issue a direct warning or challenge someone's seemingly reckless stance.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“If you didn't agree, just don't sign it. Are you trying to jack up the price now?”
“Raising prices on the spot? Are you playing or not?”
“But as soon as they moved things down, they jacked up the price,”
“Because if you sit here any longer,”
“are you sure you won't stay a bit longer?”
“I want to sit here a little longer.”