十家里有九家入不敷出
“Nine out of ten are broke.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Big noble families these days are all show on the outside only.”
十家里有九家 入不敷出
“Nine out of ten are broke.”
姑娘您去了就知道了
“You'll see when you get there.”
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I'm the one who's kept this family poor, okay?”
“Money was tight, renting one slightly bigger place.”
“and barely one in ten households survived.”
“would be enough to feed a poor family for ten years.”
“that we couldn't achieve anything.”
“You have extra mouths to feed, but your income hasn't increased. Right? Is that it?”