{"id":6989,"date":"2014-07-04T16:18:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T08:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/akikolingoland.com\/?p=6989"},"modified":"2015-08-21T13:17:12","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T05:17:12","slug":"%e4%b8%80%e5%88%86%e9%92%b1%e4%b8%80%e5%88%86%e8%b4%a7-you-get-what-you-pay-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/akikolingoland.com\/en\/%e4%b8%80%e5%88%86%e9%92%b1%e4%b8%80%e5%88%86%e8%b4%a7-you-get-what-you-pay-for\/","title":{"rendered":"\u4e00\u5206\u94b1\u4e00\u5206\u8d27 You Get What You Pay For"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since we’re on the topics of shopping and money (videos here<\/a>\u00a0and here<\/a>;\u00a0audio list here<\/a>) on the Mandarin Weekly series<\/a>, I thought it’d be apt to introduce this proverb. Scroll down for the explanation and examples.<\/p>\n

\"\u4e00\u5206\u94b1\u4e00\u5206\u8d27<\/a><\/p>\n

So, what does “\u4e00\u5206\u94b1\u4e00\u5206\u8d27” (y\u00ec f\u0113n qi\u00e1n y\u00ec f\u0113n hu\u00f2) mean? “\u5206” f\u0113n is the smallest unit of money, so literally, this means one f\u0113n money, one f\u0113n worth of goods – you get what you pay for.<\/p>\n

A similar saying is:
\nh\u01ceohu\u00f2 b\u00f9 pi\u00e1nyi, pi\u00e1nyi m\u00e9i h\u01ceohu\u00f2
\n\u597d\u8d27\u4e0d\u4fbf\u5b9c\uff0c\u4fbf\u5b9c\u6ca1\u597d\u8d27<\/span>
\nGood things aren’t cheap, cheap things aren’t good.<\/em><\/p>\n

Let’s take a look at some examples.<\/p>\n

Zh\u00e8 xi\u00e9zi c\u00e1i g\u0101ng m\u01cei ji\u00f9 p\u00f2 le, zh\u0113n sh\u00ec y\u00ec f\u0113n qi\u00e1n y\u00ec f\u0113n hu\u00f2.
\n\u8fd9\u978b\u5b50\u624d\u521a\u4e70\u5c31\u7834\u4e86\uff0c\u771f\u662f\u4e00\u5206\u94b1\u4e00\u5206\u8d27\u3002<\/strong><\/span>
\nI just got this pair of shoes and they’re torn. Well, you get what you pay for.<\/em><\/p>\n

Zh\u00e8 ji\u00e0n y\u012bfu y\u00e0ngzi g\u0113n g\u00e9b\u00ec n\u00e0 ji\u0101 de ch\u00e0budu\u014d, h\u00e1ishi hu\u00edqu m\u01cei n\u00e0 ji\u00e0n ba, pi\u00e1nyi du\u014d le.
\nA\uff1a\u8fd9\u4ef6\u8863\u670d\u6837\u5b50\u8ddf\u9694\u58c1\u90a3\u5bb6\u7684\u5dee\u4e0d\u591a\uff0c\u8fd8\u662f\u56de\u53bb\u4e70\u90a3\u4ef6\u5427\uff0c\u4fbf\u5b9c\u591a\u4e86\u3002<\/strong><\/span>
\nThe design of this dress is quite similar to the one we saw next door. Let’s get that one – it’s so much cheaper.<\/em>
\nY\u00ec f\u0113n qi\u00e1n y\u00ec f\u0113n hu\u00f2, y\u00ed k\u00e0n ji\u00f9 zh\u012bdao b\u00f9 y\u00edy\u00e0ng.
\nB\uff1a\u4e00\u5206\u94b1\u4e00\u5206\u8d27\uff0c\u4e00\u770b\u5c31\u77e5\u9053\u4e0d\u4e00\u6837\u3002<\/strong><\/span>
\nYou get what you pay for. One look and you know the quality is different.<\/em><\/p>\n

Hu\u0101 le n\u00e0me du\u014d qi\u00e1n m\u01cei de sh\u01d2uji, m\u00e9i b\u00e0n ni\u00e1n ji\u00f9 hu\u00e0i le, sh\u00e9nme y\u00ec f\u0113n qi\u00e1n y\u00ec f\u0113n hu\u00f2.
\n\u82b1\u4e86\u90a3\u4e48\u591a\u94b1\u4e70\u7684\u624b\u673a\uff0c\u6ca1\u534a\u5e74\u5c31\u574f\u4e86\uff0c\u4ec0\u4e48\u4e00\u5206\u94b1\u4e00\u5206\u8d27\uff01<\/strong><\/span>
\nI paid so much for this mobile phone, yet it’s broken in less than half a year. And they say you get what you pay for!<\/em><\/p>\n

What do you think? Do you believe \u4e00\u5206\u94b1\u4e00\u5206\u8d27?<\/p>\n

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Since we’re on the topics of shopping and money (videos here\u00a0and here;\u00a0audio list here) on the Mandarin Weekly series, I thought it’d be apt to introduce this proverb. Scroll down for the explanation and examples. So, what...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[293,82,177],"tags":[238,277],"class_list":["post-6989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-mandarin","category-useful-phrases","tag-idioms","tag-proverbs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t