但如果你想拿那五百两 得先见一个人才行
“But if you want those five hundred taels, you have to meet someone first.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
但如果你想拿那五百两 得先见 一个人 才行
“But if you want those five hundred taels, you have to meet someone first.”
夫人 祯姑娘到了
“Madam, Miss Li Zhen has arrived.”
“You don't get a single coin until you do what I want and meet this person.”
In historical and business contexts, substantial financial exchanges often required endorsement or face-to-face evaluation by behind-the-scenes patrons rather than simple transactional agreements.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
must first... before it is acceptable
A pattern used to impose non-negotiable conditions or mandatory prerequisites before an action can proceed.
Functions as a predicate completion marking necessity and feasibility in conditional structures.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Hand over that 500. 500?”
“Just give me 5 taels of silver,”
“How about you offer 1,200 taels of gold and I pay an extra ten?”
“You bid 300 taels. I don't think anyone would dare to compete with you.”
“But even selling all of them won't add up to 5,000 taels.”
“he even asked me for 500 yuan.”