您的那份我给搁桌子上了 大点声我跟林总又不吃人
“I've placed your copy on your desk. Speak up, Ms. Lin and I don't bite.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“in today's proposal meeting. Please have a look.”
您的那份我给搁桌子 上了 大点声我跟林总 又不吃人
“I've placed your copy on your desk. Speak up, Ms. Lin and I don't bite.”
“I'll present the project first. Get the projector ready.”
“Relax, stop being so timid around leadership and speak clearly.”
Subordinates in Chinese companies often show excessive deference and nervousness around senior managers; senior peers use folksy humor like 'we don't bite' to put them at ease.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
won't eat people; not scary at all
A playful, reassuring idiom used when someone appears visibly terrified of a boss or elder.
put down / placed
Colloquial Northern Mandarin structure meaning 'to put or set something in a location'.
Indicates completion of the action of placing the documents on the desk.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“yet you think I-I'm begging you for a handout?”
“Ms. Lin, should we move to another table?”
“This, this, and this. Pack everything.”
“Are you joking with me? You visit me and you want to pay? Who do you think I am?”
“But you have to save this table for me.”
“I-I came here to talk to you in good will,”