既浪费了钱 又浪费了国家资源
“wasting money and national resources?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
明明是两口子 却非要住两个房间 这不是
“We're married, yet we sleep in separate rooms. Isn't that”
既 浪费了钱 又 浪费了国家资源
“wasting money and national resources?”
“If you're willing, you can move into my room.”
“Stop being distant; there's no reason we shouldn't share a room.”
Invoking 'waste of state resources' was a common moral high ground in mid-20th-century China, often humorously or pragmatically adapted to interpersonal negotiations.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
both... and...
A fundamental coordinating conjunction pattern used to connect two simultaneous qualities, actions, or consequences.
state resources
Reflects planned-economy era phrasing where everyday living goods or lodgings were collectively owned by the state.