买几瓶酒都是小意思
“A few bottles are no big deal.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Our factory is a major one. The Commerce Bureau helps us out.”
买几瓶酒都是 小意思
“A few bottles are no big deal.”
还是当领导好
“Your job has its perks.”
“Expense accounts and favors are nothing to me—I have real clout here.”
In socialist and transitional China, working in a large state-owned factory granted enormous social prestige (mianzi) and access to premium goods like fine alcohol for networking.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
a piece of cake / mere trifle / small gesture
Frequently used either to modestly downplay a gift or, as here, to brag that an expense is negligible.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“tens of thousands of alcohol was downed. Do you think that makes sense?”
“I open 10 bottles of alcohol at a time. Makes sense, right? And after that”