别吃外面的饭 太贵了
“Don't eat out. It's too expensive.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“You have no idea how much money you save by cooking at home.”
别吃 外面的饭 太贵了
“Don't eat out. It's too expensive.”
“Of course, you don't know how to cook. You don't have that skill.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Chinese household values, home cooking is strongly associated with diligence, financial prudence, and genuine care, whereas dining out is seen as wasteful.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
restaurant food; takeout meals
Colloquial term referring to any meals consumed outside the home or ordered in, as opposed to home cooking.
too expensive
Extremely frequent everyday expression used to comment on excessive costs.
Functions as part of the excessive marker '太...了', expressing strong subjective judgment.
