他们这些小同志啊 刚开始做生意 这不也没做大吗
“They just started their businesses. They're not established yet.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
这是
“This is...”
他们这些 小同志 啊 刚开始 做生意 这不 也没 做大 吗
“They just started their businesses. They're not established yet.”
“They trust me, so they use my account for transactions.”
“It's just a tiny favor for some inexperienced kids, no need to make a big deal out of it.”
In Chinese bureaucratic and legal contexts, speakers often frame rule violations as mere informal favors for inexperienced novices to escape serious corruption charges.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
young comrade / young fellow
A slightly patriarchal or patronizing official term used by senior officials to refer to younger subordinates or youth.
as you can see / after all
Used to draw the listener's attention to an obvious fact to justify or soften an assertion.
Softens the opening topic, creating a pause to sound casual and unthreatened.
Forms a rhetorical question prompting the listener to agree that the business is negligible.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“No matter how small the business is, it's still business.”
“From the moment I started my small business,”
“Congratulations, Mr. Meng. Doing so well after joining the market.”
“The smaller the business is, the less reliable it might be.”
“How can small businesses like ours keep running?”
“Doing business with people like you”