你开店做买卖可能
“Starting a business might not...”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“But Guangcai, you know my salary is pretty modest.”
你 开店做买卖 可 能
“Starting a business might not...”
朱哥
“Zhu, that's not what I meant.”
“You have a real shot at making good money if you run your own business, unlike my dead-end job.”
Contrasting 'fixed salary' (死工资) with 'doing business' (做买卖) reflects the common Chinese societal dilemma between the security of stable employment and the high-risk, high-reward nature of private business.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to open a shop or store
A common colloquial term used when referring to starting a brick-and-mortar retail or dining business.
to do business; to trade
A traditional, everyday colloquial expression for engaging in commercial trade or running a small business.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Is this how you do business?”
“When you're out there doing business,”
“You're doing big business here”
“We are just doing business.”
“It's just a small-scale business,”
“doing some business abroad.”
“No matter how small the business is, it's still business.”
“I want to start a business,”