这一日伙食三十文
“Food costs 30 wen a day,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
之前那间宅子呢
“that house I mentioned?”
这一日伙食三十文
“Food costs 30 wen a day,”
“so that's 10,800 wen a year,”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In traditional and modern Chinese budgeting, basic meal and accommodation costs are explicitly broken down per diem to justify expenditures.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
meals / food expenses / board
Widely used in daily modern Chinese as well as historical contexts to refer to meal costs or catering provisions.
daily food costs / meals per day
Use this collocation when breaking down budgets or per diem expenditures.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Fifty-five wen a day,”
“[Noodles] that will be 30 wen.”
“Then we can cook for 330. What?”
“I can't even afford one on my daily meal budget.”
“it's 30 mace a jin.”
“One hundred wen a day—”