还不够请大夫的
“It wouldn't even be enough to pay a doctor.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
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“How much can you sell for?”
还不够 请大夫 的
“It wouldn't even be enough to pay a doctor.”
“If only Father were still here…”
“Selling you won't even cover the bare minimum medical bill; we are in a truly desperate situation.”
In traditional Chinese society, hiring an experienced doctor was a major household expense that often pushed impoverished families into ruin.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
not enough to / insufficient
Commonly placed before a verb phrase to indicate that an amount of money or resources falls short of achieving a specific goal.
to send for a physician / to hire a doctor
A traditional colloquial expression referring to paying for a medical professional to make a house call.
Functions as a nominalizer completing the cost-purpose construction, reinforcing the finality of the insufficiency.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Sorry, there's an emergency at home. Please arrange the patient to see another doctor.”
“It's all because of Dr. Chen.”