十五一斤 你看这鱼都快死了 还卖十五一斤
“15 yuan for half a kilo. The fish is dying. Your price is too high.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
十五一斤 你看 这鱼都 快死了 还卖 十五一斤
“15 yuan for half a kilo. The fish is dying. Your price is too high.”
“Can you give me a cheaper price? Make it cheaper and I'll buy more.”
“This fish isn't worth full price; give me a discount or I won't buy it.”
In Chinese wet markets, finding minor flaws in produce (such as fish not swimming actively) is a standard rhetorical convention used to initiate price negotiations.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
almost dying / barely alive
Used colloquially to describe dying seafood/animals or metaphorically for exhausted items or people.
fifteen yuan per half-kilogram
Standard marketplace shorthand for unit pricing in mainland China ('jin' is roughly 500 grams).