你跟他说 店我们不开了 一分钱都不给他
“Just tell him we don't want to open the store and won't give him a penny.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“my relationship with the telecom company. What a bad guy!”
你 跟他说 店我们 不开了 一分钱 都不给他
“Just tell him we don't want to open the store and won't give him a penny.”
哥 你想想 咱们前期 打点 送礼
“Brother, think about it. We've already spent so much money on”
“We are pulling the plug right now, and that scammer is not getting another penny from us.”
When informal connections fail or demand endless kickbacks without delivering, decisive partners often choose a harsh cutoff rather than getting bled dry.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
not a single cent / not a penny
An emphatic construction used with negation to emphasize absolute refusal to pay or spend anything.
tell him / let him know
The standard colloquial way to instruct someone to relay a message or boundary to a third party.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Take the money, close the shop, take your people,”
“He got your restaurant closed down.”
“Didn't I explain this to you? For a place like ours,”
“Tell him I can't guarantee anything.”
“You want me to close the shop,”
“We didn't spend a single cent of that money.”