工头不给钱你能给要回来吗
“The foreman won't pay. Can you get the money back?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Drafting documents, legal advice, I can do it all.”
工头不给钱 你能 给 要回来 吗
“The foreman won't pay. Can you get the money back?”
“You'll have to give me the details.”
“Don't just give me legal theory; can you actually force my boss to pay up?”
Recovering unpaid wages from subcontracting foremen is a prevalent socio-economic issue in China, where informal legal advice is often sought as a desperate measure.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to retrieve or recover (money, debts, or property)
A common spoken directional verb phrase used when seeking repayment of debts or return of lent items.
foreman or labor contractor
Commonly used in China to describe the supervisor or contractor on construction sites.
Marks a direct polar question, here delivering a pragmatic challenge.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“And you can't pay the workers' wages?”
“But you never said you'd pay me wages.”
“I heard you haven't even been able to pay your workers recently.”
“They couldn't agree on the wages.”
“hasn't been paid yet, and the workers haven't been paid.”
“or I'll dock your pay.”