不是师兄不想给你钱 你那个稿子质量太差了
“It's not that I didn't want to pay you. The quality of your translation was too poor.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
门口说吧
“Let's talk outside.”
不是 师兄 不想给 你钱 你 那个 稿子 质量太差 了
“It's not that I didn't want to pay you. The quality of your translation was too poor.”
“I had someone else translate it again. It even delayed the submission.”
“You botched the job, so you do not deserve to get paid.”
Referring to oneself in the third person as 'Shixiong' (senior male schoolmate) leverages relational warmth to cushion a professional confrontation and maintain moral high ground.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
it is not that... does not want to...
A common spoken frame used to soften a rejection or excuse by framing it as circumstance rather than ill will.
quality is too poor
Used bluntly to point out substandard quality in an item or deliverable.
Emphasizes the excessive, unacceptable degree of the poor quality.
