可是也不能一个都不来
“But they shouldn't just send no one at all.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
今儿大姑娘回门 家里人不会来送您了 就只有我了
“Today is the Eldest Miss's first return home after her wedding. No one from the family will come to see you off. It's just me.”
可是 也不 能 一个都不来
“But they shouldn't just send no one at all.”
老爷
“Master,”
“Even if they are busy, showing zero respect by having nobody see me off is deeply insulting.”
In traditional households, seeing someone off on a significant occasion is a mandatory sign of respect; having not a single person appear is a severe slight to one's status.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
not even a single one
Used with emphatic negation to stress complete absence or absolute exclusion.
still cannot / it is unacceptable to
Used to establish a baseline of acceptable conduct that has been breached.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I don't care about the numbers, but not a single person showed up?”
“But you couldn't even have one?”
“but I couldn't skip the partners' meeting.”