价钱不便宜吧
“It must have been expensive, right?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
金港的时候朋友送的
“A friend in Jin'gang gave it to me.”
价钱 不便宜吧
“It must have been expensive, right?”
二手的
“It's second-hand.”
“That looks expensive; did it cost a fortune?”
In Chinese culture, asking or guessing about the price of personal belongings is a common, acceptable form of casual interest rather than an intrusion of privacy.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
not cheap; quite expensive
A very common litotes used to politely describe something as costly without sounding too blunt.
Softens the assertion into a tentative guess while inviting confirmation from the listener.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Don't you think this place feels cheap and hasn't changed at all?”
“The price has to be reasonable. If it's not, there's no point.”
“must be quite expensive, right?”
“If the price is low enough, I'm not.”
“The dishes here taste very good and are very cheap.”
“if it's really this cheap.”