子秋 你这个店能赚钱吗 开什么玩笑
“Ziqiu, can you make money by running this shop? Of course.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
谢了
“Thanks.”
子秋 你 这个 店能 赚钱 吗 开什么玩笑
“Ziqiu, can you make money by running this shop? Of course.”
不赚钱的话 我干吗开店
“If it's not profitable, I wouldn't open it.”
“Be realistic, there is no way you can make money doing this.”
While politeness governs interactions with strangers, close peers or elders in Chinese culture often skip pleasantries to deliver blunt, pragmatic financial skepticism.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
can it make money?
Used to question profitability or financial viability in a straightforward or skeptical way.
are you kidding?; what a joke!
A very common colloquial rhetorical phrase expressing disbelief or dismissal of an idea.
Marks a standard yes-no question, here inflected rhetorically to express doubt.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“If Ziqiu is short of money, why didn't he ask me for it?”
“Ziqiu, you say it.”
“Ziqiu didn't mean to hurt you,”
“Ziqiu and Ling Xiao called her, but she refused to answer the phone.”
“No, Ziqiu. What are you doing? You began to talk nonsense again.”
“It's not easy for Ziqiu to come back and start a business.”