咱们这么弄 房子得少修多少
“If we do this, we'll be building many fewer units.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
顶楼还可以 盖一个小阁楼 做成跃层大平层
“and the top floor can also have a small loft, making it a duplex penthouse.”
咱们这么弄 房子得 少修多少
“If we do this, we'll be building many fewer units.”
真能赚钱吗
“Can we really make money?”
“Your plan looks nice, but cutting down the number of units will hurt our bottom line.”
In Chinese real estate development, builders often obsess over sellable square footage, leading to deep skepticism toward low-density artistic layouts.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
if we do it like this
A colloquial way to propose or frame a shared course of action or scenario for evaluation.
build so much less / lose how many units
A rhetorical way to emphasize an unacceptably large loss or deficit in volume or quantity.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Even if nothing needed fixing, there's still a service call fee.”
“would've been worth a fortune had we invested in real estate instead!”
“Besides, cutting corners when building houses costs lives.”
“We'll fix the place up nicely,”
“roads and houses must be built, right?”
“Don't tell me you've never fixed anything at home.”