我 我那点工资应该不够扣吧
“M-My salary won't cover that, will it?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
这个课时费从你工资里扣啊
“I'll deduct teaching fees from your salary.”
我 我 那点工资 应该 不够 扣 吧
“M-My salary won't cover that, will it?”
今天谢谢你
“Thanks for today.”
“Please don't dock my pay—I barely earn anything as it is!”
Humorously exaggerating one's financial hardship is a well-established Chinese conversational tactic to solicit mercy or deter financial penalties from superiors.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
that meager bit of salary
Used self-deprecatingly with '那点' to minimize the quantity or value of what one earns.
not enough to cover the deduction
A practical spoken phrase combining '不够' (insufficient) with a verb to show insufficiency.
Softens the rhetorical pushback into an uncertain conjecture, seeking concession without direct confrontation.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“You only make a few coins a month. Is it enough to deduct? Besides,”
“How's the pay? Is it good?”
“our meager salaries. Dock my salary. Shrimp.”