我但凡有点招我就
“If I had any other way, I...”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
表妹
“cousin.”
我 但凡 有点 招我 就
“If I had any other way, I...”
一千 一千
“A thousand, a thousand.”
“I am so desperate that I have no choice left but to swallow my pride and beg you.”
Borrowing money from family causes significant loss of face, so borrowers often use hyperbolic expressions of desperation to prove that begging was strictly a last resort.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
if there were even the slightest way / alternative
A northern Mandarin colloquial formula used in counterfactual claims to emphasize extreme desperation or having reached a dead end.