我又怎会放你来墨坊上工
“how could I let you work at the ink workshop?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“If Aunt Chunhua hadn't pleaded repeatedly,”
我 又怎会 放你来 墨坊上工
“how could I let you work at the ink workshop?”
刚来墨坊没有几日 便出了这鱼胶之事
“You've only been at the ink workshop for a few days, and then the Isinglass incident happened.”
“You only got this job through connections, and now you have proved to be an absolute liability.”
Hiring relatives or acquaintances out of courtesy (人情) creates immense conflict when the hired individual fails, leaving the patron feeling betrayed and humiliated.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
how could [I] possibly...
A formal rhetorical pattern used to emphatically state that an action would never have occurred under normal circumstances.
to go to work / to start a shift
A traditional or manual-labor term meaning to report for duty or begin daily labor.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I have other things to do at the ink workshop. I will get back to work.”
“I will follow the workshop's rules and punish them severely.”
“I thought you just wanted to take over the ink workshop.”
“Please take good care of the family and the ink workshop.”
“No one in the entire ink workshop can compare to me. Of course I know.”
“You've really started your own ink workshop.”