田家一脑门子官司 陈家
“the Tian family is stuck in lawsuits, while the Chen family”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
放眼徽州
“Looking across Huizhou,”
田家 一脑门子官司 陈家
“the Tian family is stuck in lawsuits, while the Chen family”
除了士子墨
“hasn't launched anything new”
“Our biggest rivals are drowning in trouble, so this is our golden opportunity.”
In traditional merchant guilds such as the Huizhou merchants, entire lineages competed fiercely for royal patronage and prestige.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
completely covered with; overwhelmed by
A vivid colloquial northern idiom used before negative nouns like troubles, sweat, or官司 to express being utterly besieged.
lawsuits; legal disputes
Commonly used in spoken Chinese with verbs like 打 (fight) or 吃 (suffer) to denote entangled litigation.