他算得可清楚了 他恨不得每天都在米缸里住着
“he calculates very clearly. He wishes he could live in the rice vat every day.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
而且我们那掌柜的精得很
“And our manager is very shrewd,”
他 算得可清楚了 他 恨不得 每天都在米缸里住着
“he calculates very clearly. He wishes he could live in the rice vat every day.”
这也不怪他 最近全租界都缺米
“It's not his fault. The whole concession is short of rice recently.”
“My boss is absurdly cheap and hoards every single grain of rice.”
In times of war or economic hardship in China, food items like rice were heavily rationed, turning grain hoarders into common targets of workplace complaints.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
wishing one could; dying to
Used to describe an intense desire to do something that is usually unrealistic or extreme.
calculates things extremely clearly; counts every penny
A colloquial way to describe someone meticulous, often used pejoratively to imply stinginess.
Emphasizes the completed state or high degree of the boss's penny-pinching calculation.
