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这红包该不该送？

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ID: 1485 Advanced
过春节长辈要送晚辈红包；朋友结婚，生孩子要互送红包，甚至孩子上学要送老师红包，去医院看病要送医生红包......我们生活在一个需要很多红包的年代。无奈还是必须？坏风气还是风俗习惯？恐怕没有绝对的答案。今天我们要谈的就是——给医生送红包。
Thu Aug 26 2010 | David, Jiaojie
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红包 hóngbāo red envelope
行情 hángqíng market situation
主刀医生 zhǔdāo yīshēng head surgeon
麻醉师 mázuìshī anaesthesiologist
爸明天就要做手术了，咱还没给医生送红包呢！
bà míngtiān jiùyào zuò shǒushù le ，zán hái méi gěi yīshēng sòng hóngbāo ne ！
Dad's surgery is tomorrow and we still haven't given the doctor a red envelope.
怎么送啊？
zěnme sòng a ？
How do we do that?
我打听过了，行情大概是给主刀医生两千，麻醉师一千。
wǒ dǎtīng guo le ，hángqíng dàgài shì gěi zhǔdāoyīshēng liǎng qiān ，mázuìshī yīqiān 。
I've asked about it before. Typically, you give the head surgeon two thousand, and the anesthesiologist one thousand.
不送的话会怎样？难不成不给我们做了？
bú sòng dehuà huì zěnyàng ？nánbùchéng bù gěi wǒmen zuò le ？
What if we don't give an envelope? Would they not do the surgery then?
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