要是只为钱就好了
“I wish it were just about money.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“He doesn't just want money, does he?”
要是 只 为 钱 就好了
“I wish it were just about money.”
“But now, our operations are so big,”
“I wish he only wanted money; his real motives are much harder to satisfy and way more dangerous.”
In Chinese business and interpersonal negotiations, issues that can be solved with money are considered simple; ambiguous or ideological motives pose a far greater threat.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
if only... that would be great
A highly common spoken construction used to express a counterfactual wish or lament about an unfavorable situation.
solely for; only for the sake of
A concise conjunction often combined with nouns to indicate a single, limited motivation.
Functions within the conditional pattern '就好了' to indicate the hypothetical emergence of a satisfactory outcome.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“W-Well, not entirely for the money.”
“being exposed for love is still better than for money.”
“isn't it all for making money and living better?”
“I only tolerated him because he paid well.”
“He doesn't just want money, does he?”
“they will just line their own pockets,”