物价又死贵的 那就回去啊
“The price of goods is also very expensive. Then go back.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“The hotel in Hong Kong is small and damp.”
物价又 死贵 的 那就 回去 啊
“The price of goods is also very expensive. Then go back.”
我钱快花完了 回不去
“I'm running out of money. I can't go back.”
“If you hate it here so much and everything is overpriced, stop whining and go home.”
Using 'si' (literally 'dead') before adjectives like 'gui' (expensive) or 'chen' (heavy) is very common in informal northern-influenced speech to convey dramatic annoyance.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
insanely expensive / ridiculously overpriced
A highly colloquial intensifier used before negative adjectives to emphasize an extreme degree.
in that case, just...
Used to propose a straightforward or slightly impatient solution based on the previous complaint.
Adds a blunt, urging tone suggesting the proposed course of action is obvious.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“It's so expensive. I'm poor. Goodbye.”
“This, this is too expensive. You should return it.”
“Or it'd be too expensive. If business doesn't go well,”
“You know how expensive everything is nowadays.”
“I don't have money, and I don't want to shop here. Let's just go home.”
“That's still too expensive. We can't afford it.”