这个人现在跟你父亲走得很近吧
“(Sang Shiqi) This guy is close to your father, right?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你放心
“Don't worry.”
这个人 现在跟你父亲 走得很近 吧
“(Sang Shiqi) This guy is close to your father, right?”
那这份名单
“Then this list”
“You know they are tightly connected to your dad, so what is really going on behind the scenes?”
In Chinese social and political dynamics, assessing who associates closely with whom helps determine allegiances, trustworthiness, and underlying leverage.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to be very close to someone; to associate closely with
Commonly used in spoken Chinese to describe people spending lots of time together or having an intimate, often strategic or political, relationship.
Softens the inquiry into a tentative guess, prompting the listener to confirm or deny.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Don't you understand me and your dad?”
“It was you who used to keep Father company so often.”
“that I should divorce your father?”
“You close to your parents?”
“Now that Father knows where she is,”
“Are you any different from my father now?”