马总一个月工资才一万
“He only earns 10,000 a month.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
跟我们一块坐在那边
“he's sitting with us.”
马总 一个月 工资 才一万
“He only earns 10,000 a month.”
那个 财务郝琼 叫啥 她叫郝琼
“That girl. Hao Qiong from Finance. What's her name again? Hao Qiong.”
“Can you believe a top manager makes almost nothing here compared to the staff?”
Discussing specific colleague salaries is strictly forbidden in standard Chinese corporate environments, making this private gossip all the more conspiratorial.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
only ten thousand
Use the adverb '才' before a number to emphasize that an amount is surprisingly small or less than expected.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Colleagues? How much is your salary?”
“How much do I make in a month? Why should you make 10,000?”
“I didn't make that much in a year.”
“I'm offering you 35,000. What?”
“And he can't even find a base salary of 4,000 now.”
“Quite expensive. Worth almost a month's salary.”