这钱 是用来补孙金福欠的窟窿的
“This is to pay some of the money Sun Jinfu owed.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
领导
“Sir.”
这钱 是用来补孙金福欠的窟窿的
“This is to pay some of the money Sun Jinfu owed.”
“I know he owed millions of yuan. It's a few hundred thousand yuan,”
“Don't touch this money; it is urgently earmarked to cover a massive debt.”
In Chinese workplace contexts, financial shortfalls or mismanagement are often vivid, visceral metaphors like 'holes' (窟窿) that require urgent 'patching' (补) before higher-ups investigate.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to cover a financial deficit; to patch up a hole
A highly colloquial metaphor used to describe paying off unexpected debts or fixing budget deficits.
Functions as part of the 'shi...de' construction to emphatically assert purpose or category.
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“[The Late Love Filming Team] We must pay them up.”
“He's making up the difference. And I don't have to deal with the rest.”
“But what about the money that still hasn't been raised?”
“You don't have enough money. I'll give you all my savings.”
“That money was ours all along, right?”
“You could have spent this money on something better.”