得亏是她想演戏把我误伤了
“Luckily, she just hurt me to get a part.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
这又把旧账给我翻出来了 这 我都不知道
“Now, she's digging up the past again. I didn't even know about this.”
得亏 是她想 演戏 把我 误伤 了
“Luckily, she just hurt me to get a part.”
“If she wanted to be the troupe leader, she probably would have killed me.”
“Her ambition makes her dangerous, and who knows what she'd do if more power were at stake.”
Chinese speakers often extrapolate a minor offense into a catastrophic hypothetical scenario to vividly prove someone's untrustworthiness or dangerous motives.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
thank goodness it was; luckily it was only
Used to express relief or ironic gratitude that a bad situation was not even worse.
to accidentally injure
Used literally for physical injury or metaphorically for collateral damage in workplace disputes.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Are you faking all this or did you lose the bet?”
“Luckily you didn't hurt the bone”
“Whoever else I might shortchange, I would never shortchange your Lian.”
“Is she cheated?”
“at your hands,”
“All I know is, if you cross her, nothing good happens.”