我是想跟你一块儿做生意
“I want to do business with you”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“I'm not asking to borrow 300,000 from you.”
我是 想 跟你一块儿 做生意
“I want to do business with you”
去挣三十万
“to earn 300,000.”
“I'm not begging for charity; I'm offering an opportunity where we both can profit.”
In Chinese culture, borrowing money (借钱) damages face and creates an awkward moral debt, so reframing the request as joint business creates an honorable, win-win dynamic.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
together
Common Northern colloquial synonym for '一起' (yìqǐ), ideal for informal spoken Chinese.
to do business / engage in commerce
The standard conversational phrase for pursuing entrepreneurial or mercantile ventures.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“And you were the one begging to do business with me.”
“You want to invest in my business?”
“I'm here to do business with you.”
“I want to start a business,”
“I just want to work with you. Is that wrong?”
“I just want to be a businessman.”