我告诉你 此事不成 你把我卖了都不够赔的
“I'm telling you, this won't work. Even selling me wouldn't cover the cost.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你知道那要多少两银子吗 你把田家掏空了都不够用
“Do you know how much silver that costs? Even emptying the Tian family's treasury won't be enough.”
我告诉你 此事 不成 你 把我卖了都不够赔 的
“I'm telling you, this won't work. Even selling me wouldn't cover the cost.”
我用不着你操心
“Stay out of my business.”
“You are gambling with our very lives; stop this madness before we are both ruined.”
Originating from historical practices of human selling during destitution, this phrase survives as a dramatic everyday idiom to stress that a cost far exceeds one's total worth.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
let me tell you / mark my words
Used at the start of a sentence to assert authority or signal an emphatic warning.
even selling me wouldn't be enough to pay back
A vivid, colloquial hyperbole used to emphasize an exorbitant sum of money or impossible financial debt.
Used at the end of the clause to assert an undeniable fact and heighten the sense of certainty.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I'm telling you, if my dad knows that, what will he feel?”
“Let me tell you, don't worry about my private life.”
“- You're not getting a coin from me. - You can't…”
“I'm telling you, if you dare tear up this contract today,”
“I'm telling you, I won't pay you if I miss it.”
“Listen, return the bag right now. I'm not returning it.”