其实腾达盈利 你也是很开心的吧
“When Tengda makes money, you are happy too, aren't you?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
其实 腾达盈利 你 也是 很开心 的 吧
“When Tengda makes money, you are happy too, aren't you?”
“So why insist that I run it into losses?”
“Stop pretending; I know you are secretly thrilled that the company made money.”
Subordinates in Chinese work environments constantly try to infer a boss's real purpose when instructions seem contradictory, often testing the waters with softened rhetorical prompts.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
must also be quite..., right?
Used as a soft rhetorical prompt to seek confirmation of an assumed emotional reaction.
Softens the assertion into a tentative conjecture while prompting the listener to agree or confirm.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“You caused Tengda massive losses. You owe me an explanation.”
“so I figured Tengda must be in trouble, am I right?”
“Tengda is going to be completely wrecked.”
“When Mr. Pei returns, he'll see a Tengda back in profit. Do we have confidence? - Yes! - Yes!”
“We're earning pretty well at Tengda. Why would we put ourselves through that kind of suffering?”
“Looks like ruining Tengda is not that hard.”