今天要不是 孟耀辉告诉我
“If it weren't for Meng Yaohui telling me today,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Who asked you to meddle? Who gave you permission to go?”
今天 要不是 孟耀辉 告诉我
“If it weren't for Meng Yaohui telling me today,”
“about this matter, how would you end it? I'm asking you, how would you fix it?”
“You were hiding this behind my back, and you would have ruined everything if someone else hadn't warned me.”
Keeping superiors in the dark while meddling in critical affairs is considered a major violation of loyalty and trust in Chinese relational dynamics.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
if it were not for; were it not that
Used to introduce a counterfactual condition, frequently preceding an angry rhetorical question or negative consequence.