有几千号工人等着吃饭呢 全扔了吗
“I have thousands of workers depending on me to feed them. Should I just abandon them all?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我是泰来的老板 我不是光着脚的贩夫走卒
“I am the boss of Tailai. I'm not some barefoot peddler.”
有 几千号工人 等着吃饭 呢 全扔了吗
“I have thousands of workers depending on me to feed them. Should I just abandon them all?”
“Abandon them all and let them starve to death?”
“You can afford to be reckless, but I have thousands of real human lives depending on me for their daily bread.”
Traditional Chinese industrialists viewed their workforce as an extended clan; letting workers starve is regarded as a severe moral failure for a master or boss.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
Relying on this for a livelihood (literally: waiting to eat)
A vivid colloquial idiom highlighting the heavy burden of supporting dependents or employees.
Several thousand (people)
Colloquial counter used for counting large crowds or personnel informally.
Emphasizes the ongoing and pressing reality of the workers' plight.
Forms a sharp rhetorical question highlighting the absurdity of abandoning everyone.
