咱再送他十个
“Even if he were given ten more,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Zhao Lidong just helped Jiang Tian get a project.”
咱再 送他十个
“Even if he were given ten more,”
蒋天
“Jiang Tian”
“One project is nothing to us; we can afford to let him have ten and still crush him.”
In business or underworld rivalries, leaders project invulnerability by treating substantial competitor gains as insignificant handouts.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
give him ten more (used hyperbolically to show disregard)
Useful in colloquial speech to express dismissiveness towards a competitor's minor gain.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I'll wrap them up, and you can give them to him.”
“But what should we give him?”
“Eleven for the price of 10.”
“I would give you some. What should I do?”
“a child patient's appointment, we let him deal with it.”
“I will deliver it to him later.”