你说我们这小本买卖 还怎么干下去啊
“How can small businesses like ours keep running?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“[Alley Literary Teahouse] Have you heard? They're raising taxes in Nine Cities again.”
你说 我们这 小本买卖 还怎么干 下去 啊
“How can small businesses like ours keep running?”
这一家好几口子的 这个书馆啊
“We have families to feed. This literary teahouse”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Ordinary merchants in Chinese society often bond by mutually lamenting external pressures like taxes or market changes, reinforcing solidarity through shared plight.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
small business / modest trade with limited capital
A common modest phrase used by vendors, small shop owners, or ordinary merchants to describe their vulnerable livelihood.
how to keep going / how to carry on
A colloquial rhetorical question used when facing insurmountable operational or life difficulties.
Expresses an emotional sigh of despair and helplessness at the end of the rhetorical question.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“We are doing big business.”
“How can I do business like this?”
“Small businesses thrive on low margins and high turnover. That's not bad.”
“Keep it down, will you? She lost several deals she thought were in the bag.”
“After all, we did make our money selling his goods.”
“In business, profit comes first. Making money is naturally the most important.”
“It contains the money I earned from the business I did with Wei in the past,”
“It's just a small-scale business,”
“Cheng Ken said he has a big business to talk to us.”
“No matter how small the business is, it's still business.”
“From the moment I started my small business,”
“You've seen him build his business from scratch.”
“how are we supposed to do business?”