放着嫌疑人不找
“He ignores real suspects and causes trouble for the task force.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“and is still stuck in the old routine of bringing them in first.”
放着嫌疑人不找
“He ignores real suspects and causes trouble for the task force.”
“He ignores real suspects and causes trouble for the task force.”
“You are ignoring the actual criminal and wasting everyone's time.”
In Chinese crime dramas, field investigators often clash with bureaucratic or traditional detention practices that prioritize quotas over catching the true culprit.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
putting aside; neglecting to handle
Commonly used in spoken Chinese to introduce a critical contrast, pointing out an obvious priority being neglected.
suspect
A standard legal and conversational term used when referring to persons under suspicion of a crime.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I need you to step back from your current cases.”
“He helped the suspect destroy the evidence.”
“So you've been obsessively pursuing this case for years.”
“If we don't catch the culprit,”
“that the culprit will not go unpunished!”
“He didn't face justice.”