总不能按斤称吧
“We can't sell it by weight, right?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
不是
“No.”
总不能 按斤称吧
“We can't sell it by weight, right?”
你刚刚说到格局
“You just mentioned thinking small.”
“Be serious; that way of valuing this makes zero sense.”
Chinese speakers often invoke mundane vegetable-market concepts like weighing by the catty to humorously criticize crude or disrespectful commercial assessments.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
surely cannot / it's out of the question to
Used to reject an unreasonable assumption or boundary condition with common sense.
weigh by the catty / sell by weight
Literally buying bulk goods by weight, colloquially used metaphorically to mock crude valuation methods.
Softens the rhetorical question into a solicitous yet assertive nudge for agreement.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Do you measure it or weigh it?”
“I'll just count it as 2 jin for you, alright?”
“how then do we distinguish magnitude or importance?”
“(calculating their value down to every last detail.)”
“You don't even know your own limits.”
“Don't you know your own limitations?”