可即便全卖了 也凑不齐五千两
“But even selling all of them won't add up to 5,000 taels.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
约莫还有近千挺
“Roughly 1,000 sticks.”
可 即便 全 卖了 也 凑不齐 五千两
“But even selling all of them won't add up to 5,000 taels.”
“We'll have to think of another way.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
The 'liang' (tael) was the standard unit of silver currency in imperial China; five thousand taels represents a substantial, often ruinous sum of money for ordinary households or small businesses.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
even if... still...
A standard hypothetical concession pattern used to show that an outcome will not change regardless of extreme efforts.
unable to pool together / cannot scrape together the full amount
Colloquial verb-complement combination specifically used for coming up short on money, headcounts, or resources.
Marks the hypothetical completion of selling everything.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“worth over 5 million.”
“When can we gather 5.7 million?”
“add another five million to your offer.”
“But if you want those five hundred taels, you have to meet someone first.”
“The car is only worth 5,000.”
“We don't need him to cover all of it. If he pays 250,000 yuan,”