你创业被合伙人给坑了
“that you started a business and your partner screwed you?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我听晓丹说
“I heard from Xiaodan”
你 创业 被 合伙人 给 坑了
“that you started a business and your partner screwed you?”
对
“Yes.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Close friends or prospective partners in Chinese society often bluntly ask about financial or career failures to assess someone's current standing and resilience.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to start a business, entrepreneurship
Standard spoken and written term for founding a startup or new venture.
got scammed, ripped off, or sabotaged
A highly colloquial passive structure using 坑 to describe falling into a trap or being taken advantage of by someone.
Marks the completed state of being scammed.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Once you start your second business, you won't stop until you've given it everything.”
“If you're starting a company, what am I supposed to be?”
“(If you were to start a business,) what would I be?”
“When young people start a business, who hasn't gone through their share of hardships?”
“We're doing this together. You'll be a shareholder.”
“And I don't care that your startup failed.”