听说这个邀请函 要好几百块钱一张呢
“I heard these tickets cost several hundred each!”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Never heard of it before.”
听说 这个 邀请 函 要好几百 块钱一张呢
“I heard these tickets cost several hundred each!”
“That expensive? There are even scalpers reselling them!”
“Can you believe people are actually paying several hundred yuan just for an invite?”
During periods of rapid economic change in China, exclusive invitations were commercialized into luxury commodities traded by scalpers.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
several hundred yuan
Use '好几 + measure word' to emphasize that a quantity is surprisingly large.
to hear that / reportedly
Commonly placed at the start of a sentence to introduce rumor, gossip, or secondhand news.
Adds emphasis to an unexpected fact or high number, highlighting the speaker's mild astonishment.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“But invitations aren't that easy to get. How will you attend?”
“Do I even need an invitation to get into a place like this?”
“actually managed to secure such good seats?”
“I'm here to deliver the invitation letter.”
“- Then, please show your invitation. - What, not letting me in?”
“asked me for 25,000 yuan as the middleman's fee.”