一百万 我问上来
“A million. I mean, if he came back up.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
结果人死在水坑里了 多少钱
“In the end, he died in the pit. How much?”
一百万 我问上来
“A million. I mean, if he came back up.”
一万
“Ten thousand.”
“That is for dying, but what I actually want to know is what happens if the person survives.”
In spoken Chinese, placing the verb of inquiry right before the target topic acts as a fast conversational pivot to correct a misunderstanding.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
I am asking about; what I asked was
Used colloquially to redirect focus back to the speaker's original question when the interlocutor digresses.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“With a child to raise, 10,000 a month”
“My eight hundred thousand.”
“One thousand a month. How's that?”
“Honestly speaking, I'm not interested in in where your 100,000 yuan came from.”
“200,000 yuan. It's the annual salary of your dad.”
“I heard it's over ten million. Over ten million?”