得亏了咱们这个周企业家 有个特别好的习惯
“Thanks to this entrepreneur Zhou, who has a great habit”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
要了那天所有的照片
“and asked for all the photos from that day.”
得亏 了咱们 这个 周企业家 有个 特别好 的习惯
“Thanks to this entrepreneur Zhou, who has a great habit”
为人特别高调
“of being very high-profile.”
“Luckily for us, this arrogant guy loves showing off so much that he left clear evidence.”
Using high-status titles like 'entrepreneur' with 'our' (咱们) ironically mocks an individual's inflated public ego when they have committed a misstep.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
luckily; thanks to; fortunately
Used in spoken Mandarin to express relief that a specific condition or event averted a worse outcome.
a particularly good habit
A common collocation often used literally, but here employed with tongue-in-cheek sarcasm.
Functions as a marker of realized state or completed circumstance bound to the connective '得亏'.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“You can lose people or money, but never your reputation.”
“Dear Mr. Zhou, sorry”
“Now, it's self-funded. We don't even get base pay.”
“let this shop keep going down.”
“Now that your plot has failed,”
“Go take a look at this quarter's accounts. If he can actually make the company lose money,”