一个小时一百二 一分钟两块 所以为了不亏本
“That's 120 yuan per hour, 2 yuan per minute. So to get our money's worth,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
这游戏玩多久啊 四个小时 四个小时
“How long does this game last? Four hours. Four hours?”
一个小时一百二 一分钟两块 所 以为 了 不亏本
“That's 120 yuan per hour, 2 yuan per minute. So to get our money's worth,”
“we need to stick it out till the end. Good luck.”
“We paid way too much for this, so we cannot afford to quit now.”
A deeply rooted practical consumer mindset in Chinese society where people push themselves through discomfort just to extract full value from prepaid expenses.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
in order to not lose money; to get one's money's worth
Use colloquially when justifying an effort simply to avoid wasting money already spent.
one hour
A standard time-duration phrase placed before a rate or cost in casual pricing contexts.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I could spend”
“Two hundred yuan for those? Two yuan each. One hundred of them.”
“How much? You pay. One twenty in total. I'll get it. I'll get it.”
“That's way underpriced. This should be at least 30. Why is it only 10?”
“1000 stays. That won't do.”
“Only 100 taels a day?”