那个时候你还怎么活
“how you'd survive then!”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Who in the ink industry in Suzhou and Huizhou would dare to hire you? I'd like to see”
那个 时候你 还怎么活
“how you'd survive then!”
祯娘 祯娘 姑父错了
“Zhen, Zhen... I was wrong.”
“You are utterly ruined unless you yield to me right now.”
In traditional Chinese commercial guilds and clans, being ostracized across regional industries meant total social and economic death.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
at that time; by then
Commonly used to point to a future scenario, often framing impending consequences or milestones.
how to survive; how to make a living
A rhetorical idiom expressing complete despair or an impossible economic situation.