上不来 八十万
“If you don't, 800,000.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“How much if I don't? If you come up, 6,000.”
上不来 八十万
“If you don't, 800,000.”
上来我要两万
“I want 20,000 if I come up.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In high-risk manual labor in China, workers and employers often establish explicit, upfront verbal pacts regarding casualty payouts before undertaking life-threatening tasks.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
cannot come up; unable to resurface
A potential complement indicating the inability to ascend or emerge from below, often used in underwater or dangerous rescue/mining contexts.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Can the eight hundred thousand still be withdrawn? No way it can be withdrawn.”
“If he goes down and doesn't come back up, he gets a million.”
“I can't even scrape together 1 million.”
“You don't have five million? Who are you trying to fool?”
“we can't get back up from here either. No hurry.”
“they are far from good enough.”