府尹真是日理万机
“You're quite busy.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
在看京兆府的公文
“You're reading the official documents?”
府尹 真是 日理万机
“You're quite busy.”
你不让我去京兆府署
“You ban me from going to the office.”
“Look at you, still acting like an indispensable workaholic even here.”
The four-character idiom reflects traditional Confucian bureaucratic praise for tireless devotion to public administration, often adapted playfully in personal speech.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
handling thousands of affairs daily; heavily preoccupied with state affairs
A chengyu originally applied to imperial or state leaders, often used colloquially to tease busy friends or colleagues.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Prefect Mo, such a hasty dismissal probably violates protocol.”
“Prefect, everything's ready. We can set off at any time.”
“The Prefect calls. Go.”
“If you don't disdain it, please try some.”
“I increasingly fail to understand what our new prefect is thinking.”
“You're new here, so you don't know.”