我在这能混口饭吃就行了
“I could just scrape by here.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“I used to think that since the hotel provided food and accommodation,”
我在这 能 混口饭吃 就行了
“I could just scrape by here.”
但是后来我看到你
“But then I saw you.”
“I used to have zero ambition and just wanted basic survival, until you showed me something better.”
In contemporary Chinese culture, describing one's work as merely '混口饭吃' reflects either self-deprecating modesty or the passive mentality of young workers just trying to get by.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to scrape by; to make a bare living
A highly colloquial, self-deprecating idiom used to describe working merely to survive rather than out of career ambition.
that will do; that is enough
Commonly placed at the end of a clause to express sufficiency or minimal requirement.
Functions here to mark a state of sufficiency and contentment with the minimal outcome.
