是有点麻烦你了 这样吧 凑个整 两万
“I know it's a bit of trouble for you. How about rounding it up to 20,000?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
三个月一次性付清 一万八
“Three months. All at once. 18,000?”
是 有点麻烦 你了 这样吧 凑个整 两万
“I know it's a bit of trouble for you. How about rounding it up to 20,000?”
两万
“20,000?”
“I know I am inconveniencing you, so let me sweeten the deal so you'll agree happily.”
Voluntarily offering to round up an uneven sum demonstrates generosity and compensates for moral debt (Renqing), smoothing business friction in Chinese interpersonal dealings.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
a bit troublesome for you / putting you out a bit
A polite, standard conversational phrase used to acknowledge an imposition before making a request or adjustment.
how about this / here is an idea
Common spoken transition phrase used to introduce a compromise, proposal, or solution in negotiations.
round up to an even number
Extremely frequent in everyday transactions when adjusting a payment to a cleaner, usually higher, benchmark figure.
Softens the proposal, framing the new price as a polite suggestion rather than a unilateral command.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“It was nearly 20,000. It was less than 20,000.”
“Let's make do with it. That's about it.”
“We can scrape together a million.”
“Ten thousand in cash upfront. Another 30,000 after it's done.”
“I know that millions won't be enough. Got to be tens of millions.”
“Don't think 20,000 yuan is a small amount. Many people have that misconception.”