小心他在业绩上给你使绊子
“Watch out, he might sabotage your performance.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
等于动了他的蛋糕
“you're messing with his interests.”
小心 他在业绩上 给你 使绊子
“Watch out, he might sabotage your performance.”
毕竟他掌管着销售部
“After all, he's in charge of the sales department.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Chinese office culture often involves complex interpersonal dynamics where encroaching on someone else's territory ('moving their cake') invites covert retaliation rather than open confrontation.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to trip someone up; to secretly sabotage or undermine someone
A highly common northern idiom used when someone covertly puts obstacles in another person's way.
in terms of performance metrics or sales targets
Use this structure '在...上' to specify the domain or aspect being discussed.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“you waste your schemes bullying your colleagues.”
“He's got good taste.”
“He was just putting on a show for my boss,”
“Be careful. Got it!”
“Just put all this chattering energy into your work performance.”
“Be careful, or your conscience will get you in trouble.”