我不是开了一阵子彩票店吗
“after running the lottery shop for a while,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
就是
“Well,”
我不是 开了一阵子 彩票店 吗
“after running the lottery shop for a while,”
我就觉得
“I felt”
“You know that lottery shop I ran? Keep that in mind because it explains what happened next.”
Lottery kiosks are low-capital retail ventures commonly attempted by small-scale entrepreneurs in China, often abandoned quickly if margins are insufficient.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
a period of time / for a while
Useful informal temporal phrase to indicate an indefinite, relatively brief duration.
lottery shop / lottery booth
Everyday noun referring to the ubiquitous small lottery kiosks and storefronts across Chinese cities.
Forms a rhetorical confirmation question checking if the listener recalls the fact.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“What time does your lottery shop close?”
“I see you haven't made a single sale.”
“The main thing is, we didn't open this month.”
“I bought a lottery ticket and won.”
“I've been running this shop for years.”
“Not the first time doing this, huh?”