基地 我们没钱坐公交车
“Base. We do not have money for the bus.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Yuanbao, can you take us to the secret base?”
基地 我们 没钱坐公交车
“Base. We do not have money for the bus.”
没爸爸 危险
“No dad. Dangerous.”
“We can't go there on our own without money, so you really have to help us out.”
Younger speakers often emphasize their helplessness and lack of resources when asking an older stranger or acquaintance for assistance.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
have no money to take the bus
A common spoken phrase explaining financial inability to use public transportation.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“We need to find a place to use as a base.”
“I don't have money, and I don't want to shop here. Let's just go home.”
“We've got nowhere to stay.”
“He's not short of money, so why didn't he just rent that place directly?”
“and you don't have the money to move somewhere else,”
“I can at least enter a city somewhere else”